US Plant Patent PP11385
PC 7144-6
Cherry tree named `PC 7144-6`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 24, 2018. 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
- PP11385
- Filed
- April 24, 1998
- Granted
- May 16, 2000
- Expires
- April 24, 2018
- Assignee
- UNIV WASHINGTON
- Inventor
- TOYAMA THOMAS K
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of self-infertile sweet cherry tree which bears very large mahogany red colored fruits that are 10-14 grams in weight. Its fruits, which are well suited for the high quality early season premium market, ripen six to nine days ahead of the commercially grown `Bing` variety, to which in many ways the new variety is comparable.
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 obtained as a seedling of `Stella` (unpatented)×`Early Burlat` (unpatented), substantially as shown and described herein, characterized by its early maturing, very large, firm fruits that are larger than the fruits of the `Bing` variety and ripen six to nine days earlier, and by its resistance to crinkle-leaf disorder.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11385 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.