Application for Plant Variety Protection Certificate and Objective Description of Variety

OMB 0581-0055

The Plant Variety Protection Act provides for the issuance of intellectual property protection on novel varieties of seed reproduced crops. Information collected provides expert examiners in the PVPO a basis for issuing or denying a certificate of protection.

The latest form for Application for Plant Variety Protection Certificate and Objective Description of Variety expires 2022-01-31 and can be found here.

Latest Forms, Documents, and Supporting Material

Document Name
Form ST-472 Application for Plant Variety Protection Certificate and Objective Description of Variety Form
Supporting Statement PVPO.docx Supporting Statement A
AMS-71 Spreadsheet AMS-ST-21-0083.xlsx Supplementary Document
Application for Plant Variety Protection Certificate and Objective Description of Variety Form

All Historical Document Collections

202201-0581-001 Approved with change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2022-01-27
202004-0581-002	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2020-04-15
201903-0581-001 Approved without change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2019-03-18
201810-0581-004 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2018-12-13
201806-0581-004 Approved without change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2018-06-18
201509-0581-001 Approved without change	Extension without change of a currently approved collection	2015-10-26
201208-0581-001 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2012-10-10
201004-0581-001 Approved without change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2010-04-12
200906-0581-005 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2009-06-26
200605-0581-002 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2006-05-25
200304-0581-001 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2003-04-14
200105-0581-002 Approved without change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	2001-05-17
200002-0581-008 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	2000-02-29
199612-0581-004 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	1996-12-16
199311-0581-004 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	1993-11-22
199010-0581-002 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	1990-10-24
198906-0581-001 Approved with change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	1989-06-05
198904-0581-005 Approved with change	No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection	1989-04-04
198712-0581-001 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	1987-12-16
198502-0581-002 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	1985-02-04
198204-0581-007 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	1982-04-16
197705-0581-001 Approved without change	Revision of a currently approved collection	1977-05-11