Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Right Act,2001
Act No : 53
Section :
Prohibition to apply the denomination of a registered cariety.
68. Prohibition to apply the denomination of a registered variety.-(1) No person other than the breeder of a variety registered under this Act or a registered licensee or a registered agent thereof shall use the denomination of that variety in the mann r as may be prescribed. (2) A person shall be deemed to apply the denomination of a variety registered under this Act who- (a) applies it to the variety itself; or (b) applies it to any package in or with which the variety is sold, or exposed for sale, or had in possession such package for sale or for any purpose of trade or production; or (c) places, encloses or annexes the variety which are sold, or exposed for sale, or had in possession for sale or for any purpose of trade or production, in or with any package or other thing to which the denomination of such variety registered under thi Act has been applied; or (d) uses the denomination of such variety registered under this Act in any manner reasonably likely to lead to the belief that the variety or its propagating material in connection with which it is used is designated or described by that denomination; or (e) in relation to the variety uses such denomination in any advertisement, invoice, catalogue, business letter, business paper, price list or other commercial document and such variety is delivered to a person in pursuance of a request or order made by eference to the denomination as so used. (3) A denomination shall be deemed to be applied to a variety whether it is woven in, impressed on, or otherwise worked into, or annexed or affixed to, such variety or to any package or other thing.
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