Carmine strawberry plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 28, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 7, 2023. This patent earned 144 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18261, the photograph of Carmine strawberry plant printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18261, 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

PP18261

Filed

July 7, 2003

Granted

December 4, 2007

Expires

November 28, 2023

Assignee

FLORIDA FOUND SEED PRODUCERS INC

Inventor

CHANDLER CRAIG K

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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

This invention is a new and distinct variety of strawberry plant named ‘Carmine’. ‘Carmine’ is characterized by high December through February production of fruit that are firm, deep red, glossy, and moderately resistant to Botrytis and Anthracnose fruit rot diseases when grown in west central Florida.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Strawberry plant, substantially as shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18261 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.