US Plant Patent PP14578

PS-MSC0003

Artichoke plant named ‘PS-MSC0003’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 25, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 23, 2022. This patent earned 32 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP14578
Filed: September 23, 2002
Granted: March 9, 2004
Expires: October 25, 2022
Assignee: PLANT SCIENCES INC
Inventor: COLFER WILLIAM J

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of artichoke plant named ‘PS-MSC0003’, characterized by male sterility, large head size, fleshiness of bracts, fleshiness of hearts, uniformity of head shapes.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of artichoke plant named ‘PS-MSC0003’, as described and illustrated.

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