US Plant Patent PP8499
Brighton 650 grapevine
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 24, 2010. 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
- PP8499
- Filed
- December 24, 1990
- Granted
- December 14, 1993
- Expires
- December 24, 2010
- Assignee
- BRIGHTON FARMING COMPANY
- Inventor
- KECK JR HOWARD B
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of grapevine which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Superior Seedless" grapewine with which it is most closely related, but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately eleven days prior to the fruit produced by "Superior Seedless" grapevine, or approximately May 25 in the Coachella Valley of California and which has a larger, rounder berries and bunches with longer shoulders.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of grapevine, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of grapevine substantially as illustrated and described and which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Superior Seedless" grapevine from which it is derived, but from which it is distinguished principally as to novelty by producing larger, rounder berries and bunches with longer shoulders when grown under the same growing conditions and which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 25 in the Coachella Valley of California, or about eleven days earlier than the "Superior Seedless" grapevine and about four to eight days earlier than the grapevine of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,151.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8499 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.