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US Plant Patent PP16594

Carla

Avocado tree named ‘Carla’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 17, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 12, 2024. This patent earned 128 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16594, the photograph of Carla printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16594, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP16594
Filed
July 12, 2004
Granted
May 30, 2006
Expires
November 17, 2024
Assignee
AGROINDUSTRIA OCOENA S A
Inventor
CASTILLO PIMENTEL CARLOS ANTON

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Persea americana is disclosed. A vigorous moderately-spreading upright growth habit is exhibited. The tree starts blooming in mid-March and the blooms are of the “B” type. The fruit is harvested from late February through May. The fruit is elliptical-spheroid obliquely toward apex on one side, occasionally fruit have a raised ridge, chimera, running along a side from the stem down. The fruit skin is a dark green, nearly smooth. This fruit has good to excellent quality flesh.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of avocado tree substantially as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16594 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.