---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2484"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2484"
heading: "Correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2484"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Protectability of Plant Varieties and Certificates of Protection"
  - "Part H — Certificates of Plant Variety Protection"
---

# §2484. Correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake


Whenever a mistake in a certificate of plant [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) protection incurred through the fault of the Plant [Variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) Protection Office is clearly disclosed by the records of the Office, the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may issue, without charge, a corrected certificate of plant [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) protection, stating the fact and nature of such mistake. Such certificate of plant [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) protection shall have the same effect and operation in law as if the same had been originally issued in such corrected form.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 84, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1552; Pub. L. 96–574, § 15, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3350.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–574 substituted provisions relating to correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake for provisions relating to certificate of correction of Plant Variety Protection Office mistake.