---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2544"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2544"
heading: "Research exemption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2544"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter III — Plant Variety Protection and Rights"
  - "Part K — Infringement of Plant Variety Protection"
---

# §2544. Research exemption


The use and reproduction of a protected [variety](/usc/7/2401.md?p=a-10) for plant breeding or other bona fide research shall not constitute an infringement of the protection provided under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title III, § 114, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1555.)