US Plant Patent PP28309

Willamette Thornless Marion

Blackberry plant named ‘Willamette Thornless Marion’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 20, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 28, 2032. This patent earned 599 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP28309
Filed: September 28, 2012
Granted: August 22, 2017
Expires: May 20, 2034
Assignee: HEIDT LEONARD JOSEPH
Inventor: KIMLINGER ERNEST

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of blackberry plant named ‘Willamette Thornless Marion’. The new cultivar originated as a mutation of ‘Marion’. It is nearly identical in all ways to ‘Marion’ except that it does not have thorns.

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

The invention claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of Blackberry plant named ‘Willamette Thornless Marion’ as illustrated and described herein.

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