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US Plant Patent PP27274

Arvin Bruce

Cherry tree named ‘Arvin Bruce’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 26, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 15, 2034. This patent earned 101 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27274, the photograph of Arvin Bruce printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27274, 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
PP27274
Filed
December 15, 2014
Granted
October 18, 2016
Expires
March 26, 2035
Assignee
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN, QUISENBERRY JON M
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN; QUISENBERRY JON M

Abstract

The present invention relates to a cherry tree, Prunus avium , and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, self-unfruitful, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in early May, with first picking on May 3, 2014. The fruit is uniformly medium to large in size, very good in flavor, somewhat oblate in shape, freestone in type, moderately firm in texture, heat tolerant, red to yellowish pink in flesh color, deep red in skin color, and it has a medium length stem that is strongly attached to the fruit.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its seed parent, ‘Glenred’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,859) cherry, by being self-unfruitful, by blooming during the early season, by having reniform glands, by being productive, and by producing fruit that is full red in skin color, somewhat oblate in shape, moderately firm, sweet, and fairly crack resistant, but is distinguished therefrom by producing cherries that are somewhat larger in size, that are a lighter red in flesh color, that are fully freestone instead of semi-freestone, that ripen about five days earlier, and that have stems that are more strongly attached.

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