---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2485"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2485"
heading: "Correction of applicant’s mistake"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2485"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Protectability of Plant Varieties and Certificates of Protection"
  - "Part H — Certificates of Plant Variety Protection"
---

# §2485. Correction of applicant’s mistake


Whenever a mistake of a clerical or typographical nature, or of minor character, or in the description of the [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10), which was not the fault of the Plant [Variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) Protection Office, appears in a certificate of plant [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) protection and a showing has been made that such mistake occurred in good faith, the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may, upon payment of the required fee, issue a corrected certificate if the correction could have been made before the certificate issued. 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, § 85, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1552; Pub. L. 96–574, § 16, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3351.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–574 struck out applicability of section 2484 of this title to manner and form of certificate, and reference to trials of actions thereafter arising with respect to effect and operation in law of certificate.