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US Plant Patent PP6782

Loch Ness

Blackberry plant--Loch Ness cultivar

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 24, 2007. 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
PP6782
Filed
November 24, 1987
Granted
May 9, 1989
Expires
November 24, 2007

Abstract

This cultivar was formed by crossing two unnamed selections bred at the Scottish Crop Research Institute. The new cultivar is noted for its high yield of large, slightly glossy black fruit and its sturdy, erect or semi-erect thornfree stems.

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 variety of blackberry substantially as herein shown and described together with the parts thereof.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6782 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.