US Plant Patent PP15157
Glenoia
Cherry tree named ‘Glenoia’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 21, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 25, 2023. This patent earned 26 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP15157
- Filed
- June 25, 2003
- Granted
- September 21, 2004
- Expires
- July 21, 2023
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
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, vigorous, hardy, self-sterile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late May, with first picking on May 25, 2003. The fruit is uniformly large in size, oblate in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, red in flesh color, and dark red in skin color. The variety was developed from an open pollinated seed from an undetermined cherry seedling.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to the ‘Glenred’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,859) cherry by producing cherries that are large in size, oblate in shape, firm in texture, dark red in skin color, red in flesh color, and sweet in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by blooming about two days later, by producing cherries that ripen about ten days later, and by being a pollinator for both the ‘Glenred’ and ‘Tulare’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,407).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15157 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.