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US Plant Patent PP32755

SMS-1-CA-WA 2014-1

Cherry tree named ‘SMS-1-CA-WA 2014-1’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 16, 2039.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP32755, the photograph of SMS-1-CA-WA 2014-1 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP32755, 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
PP32755
Filed
October 16, 2019
Granted
January 19, 2021
Expires
October 16, 2039
Assignee
SMS UNLIMITED LLC, S M S UNLIMITED LLC
Inventor
SOUTHWICK STEPHEN M

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree, which is denominated varietally as ‘SMS-1-CA-WA 2014-1’ is described, with very high productivity and which produces early ripening fruit considered large in size and low in off-grade fruit types of deep suture, spur, and double fruit formations under the ecological conditions prevailing in Lodi, Calif.

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

Having thus described and illustrated a new variety of sweet cherry tree, what is claimed to secure a plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is characterized principally as to novelty by very high productivity and by producing early ripening fruit considered large in size and low in off-grade fruit types of deep suture, spur, and double fruit formations under the ecological conditions prevailing in Lodi, Calif.

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