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1 "(1) Sale or disposition for 



2 nonreproductive PURPOSES. — The sale or disposi- 



3 tion, for other than reproductive purposes, of har- 



4 vested material produced as a result of experimen- 



5 tation or testing of a variety to ascertain the charac- 



6 teristics of the variety, or as a by-product of increas- 



7 ing a variety, shall not be considered to be a sale or 



8 disposition for purposes of exploitation of the 



9 variety. 



10 "(2) Sale or disposition for reproductive 



11 PURPOSES. — The sale or disposition of a variety for 



12 reproductive purposes shall not be considered to be 



13 a sale or disposition for the purposes of exploitation 



14 of the variety if the sale or disposition is done as an 



15 integral part of a program of experimentation or 



16 testing to ascertain the characteristics of the variety, 



17 or to increase the variety on behalf of the breeder 



18 or the successor in interest of the breeder. 



19 "(3) Sale or disposition of hybrid seed. — 



20 The sale or disposition of hybrid seed shall be con- 



21 sidered to be a sale or disposition of harvested mate- 



22 rial of the varieties from which the seed was pro- 



23 duced. 



24 "(4) Application for protection or en- 



25 TERING INTO A REGISTER OF VARIETIES. — The fil- 



