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US Plant Patent PP29048

SMS-16-CA 2014-16

Cherry tree named ‘SMS-16-CA 2014-16’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 22, 2036.

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 PP29048, the photograph of SMS-16-CA 2014-16 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP29048, 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
PP29048
Filed
July 22, 2016
Granted
March 6, 2018
Expires
July 22, 2036
Assignee
SMS UNLIMITED LLC, SOUTHWICK STEPHEN M
Inventor
SOUTHWICK STEPHEN M

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, which is denominated varietally as ‘SMS-16-CA 2014-16’ is described, and which produces fruit having a very large size, an early ripening time, is highly productive, and which further has symmetrically shaped fruit when grown under the ecological conditions prevailing in the states of California and Washington, and wherein the mature fruit displays little or no indentation along the suture line.

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 secure by plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, and which is characterized, at least in part, by producing fruit having a very large size; an early ripening time; is highly productive, and which further has symmetrically shaped fruit when grown under the ecological conditions prevailing in the states of California and Washington, and wherein the mature fruit displays little or no indentation along the suture line.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP29048 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.