The PROTECTION OF PLANT VARIETIES AND FARMERS’ RIGHTS ACT, 2001

INFRINGEMENT, OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PRODURE

Section 65: Suit for infringement, etc.

(1) No suit—

(a) for the infringement of a variety registered under this Act; or

(b) relating to any right in a variety registered under this Act, shall be instituted in any court inferior to a District Court having jurisdiction to try the suit.

(2) For the purposes of clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1), “District court having jurisdiction” shall mean the District Court within the local limit of whose jurisdiction the cause of action arises.