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US Plant Patent PP27401

APF-122

Blackberry plant named ‘APF-122’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 28, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 20, 2034. This patent earned 67 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27401, the photograph of APF-122 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27401, 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
PP27401
Filed
February 20, 2014
Granted
November 22, 2016
Expires
April 28, 2034
Inventor
CLARK JOHN REUBEN; THOMPSON ELLEN; AGUAS-ALVARADO MARIO

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of blackberry plant named ‘APF-122’. Characteristics include its precocity, high soluble solids (even at the red-black stage), very little postharvest reddening (<10%), heavy over-crops on its compact primocanes such that a floricane crop would generally not be economically viable.

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

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of blackberry plant named ‘APF-122’ as described and shown herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27401 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.