---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2486"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2486"
heading: "Correction of named breeder"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2486"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Protectability of Plant Varieties and Certificates of Protection"
  - "Part H — Certificates of Plant Variety Protection"
---

# §2486. Correction of named breeder


An error as to the naming of a [breeder](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-3) in the application, without deceptive intent, shall not affect validity of plant [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) protection and may be corrected at any time by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) in accordance with regulations established by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) or upon order of a federal court before which the matter is called in question. Upon such correction the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall issue a certificate accordingly. Such correction shall not deprive any [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) of any rights the [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) otherwise would have had.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title II, § 86, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1552; Pub. L. 103–349, § 13(n), Oct. 6, 1994, 108 Stat. 3143.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–349 substituted “the Secretary” for “him” in first sentence and “the person” for “he” in third sentence.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–349 effective 180 days after Oct. 6, 1994, see section 15 of Pub. L. 103–349, set out as a note under section 2401 of this title.