US Plant Patent PP10578
Andy-G's Son
Cherry tree `Andy-G's Son`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 24, 2016. 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
- PP10578
- Filed
- September 24, 1996
- Granted
- September 1, 1998
- Expires
- September 24, 2016
- Inventor
- HURLBUT ROBERT L
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, Prunus avium, which produces fruit of uniformly large size and dark red skin coloration which are mature for harvesting and shipment about April 20 to about April 25 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and which have a smooth, crisp flesh texture being firm in character at harvest.
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 cherry tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by plant letters patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of cherry tree substantially as illustrated and described which is a sport of the "Early Burlatt" cherry tree and which produces fruit of uniformly large size which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately April 20 to April 25 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and which have a dark red skin coloration.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10578 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.