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US Plant Patent PP29049

SMS-9CA 2014-9

Cherry tree named ‘SMS-9CA 2014-9’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 11, 2036.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 8, 2036. This patent earned 3 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP29049, the photograph of SMS-9CA 2014-9 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP29049, 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
PP29049
Filed
July 8, 2016
Granted
March 6, 2018
Expires
July 11, 2036
Assignee
SMS UNLIMITED LLC, SOUTHWICK STEPHEN M
Inventor
SOUTHWICK STEPHEN M

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree, which is denominated varietally as ‘SMS-9CA 2014-9’, and which produces fruit having an early ripening fruit (‘Chelan’ timing), and which further has a large fruit, high production, self-fertility, a long stem, and strong fruit attachment, and which further has a very attractive appearance, and organoleptic qualities.

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 sweet cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, what which is characterized by an early ripening fruit (‘Chelan’ timing), and which further has a large fruit, high production, self-fertility, a long stem and strong fruit attachment, and which further has a very attractive appearance, and organoleptic qualities.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP29049 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.