Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 11, 2026

Title 7 - Agriculture last revised: Jul 29, 2026
Searching within: All TitlesTitle 7Chapter IPart 97 - PART 97—PLANT VARIETY AND PROTECTION
§ 97.24 - Assignee.

The assignee of record of the entire interest in an application is entitled to advance actively or abandon the application to the exclusion of the applicant.

authority: Plant Variety Protection Act, as amended, 7 U.S.C. 2321
source: 58 FR 42435, Aug. 9, 1993, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 7 CFR 97.24