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US Plant Patent PP28625

RA

Banana plant named ‘RA’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 24, 2036.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 3, 2035. This patent earned 386 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP28625, the photograph of RA printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28625, 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
PP28625
Filed
January 3, 2015
Granted
November 14, 2017
Expires
January 24, 2036
Assignee
RAHAN MERISTEM 1998 LTD, KHAYAT ELIYAHU
Inventor
KHAYAT ELIYAHU

Abstract

‘RA’ is a cultivar of the ancestral banana line ‘Gran Nain’ (GN), which belongs to Musa acuminata variety ‘Cavendish’. When compared to its ancestral line, ‘RA’ shows the following characteristics: 1. Super heavy fruit bunch, 2. Especially long, and heavy fingers in a hand, 6. More fingers per hand, 3. Wavy leaf lamina, 7. Youngest unfolded leaves are tightly rolled, 8. Thicker pseudostem circumference, 9. Higher fruit yield per bunch, 10. More cylindrical bunch shape.

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

It is claimed: 1. ‘RA’, a new and distinct cultivated variety of banana plant, substantially as illustrated and described, that forms a super heavy bunch, especially long, and heavy fingers, with more fingers per hand, wavy leaf lamina, with the youngest leaves tightly rolled, thicker pseudostem circumference, a higher fruit yield per bunch, and a more cylindrical bunch shape than ‘Gran Nain’.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28625 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.