US Plant Patent PP6678
Choctaw Blackberry
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 9, 2007. 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
- PP6678
- Filed
- November 9, 1987
- Granted
- March 21, 1989
- Expires
- November 9, 2007
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
Description and specifications of a new and distinct blackberry variety which originated from seed produced by a hand-pollinated cross of Arkansas Selection 526 (non-patented) and Rosborough (non-patented) is provided. This new blackberry variety can be distinguished by its very early fruit ripening, very erect cane growth habit, small seed size, and excellent fruit quality.
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 blackberry, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its very early ripening, very erect cane growth habit, small seed size and excellent fruit quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6678 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.