US Plant Patent PP9916
552
`552` Grapevine
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 22, 2015. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9916
- Filed
- August 22, 1995
- Granted
- June 10, 1997
- Expires
- August 22, 2015
- Assignee
- CARATAN LUIS M
- Inventor
- GARGIULO ANGEL A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of grapevine which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Flame Seedless" grapevine (Unpatented), but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 1, or about two weeks after the fruit produced by the "Flame Seedless" grapevine, and wherein the fruit is of high quality and of dark maroon red to lighter red skin coloration.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of grapevine, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of grapevine substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Flame Seedless" grapevine (Unpatented), but from which it is distinguished by producing high quality seedless fruit having a red skin coloration which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately August 1, or about two weeks after the fruit of the "Flame Seedless" grapevine, in San Joaquin Valley of central California.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9916 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.