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US Plant Patent PP24973

Felix

Corylus plant named ‘Felix’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 27, 2033.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 24, 2032. This patent earned 65 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP24973, the photograph of Felix printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP24973, 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
PP24973
Filed
December 24, 2012
Granted
October 21, 2014
Expires
February 27, 2033
Assignee
OREGON STATE
Inventor
MEHLENBACHER SHAWN A; SMITH DAVID C; MCCLUSKEY REBECCA L

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Corylus plant named ‘Felix’ characterized by an upright plant habit and high vigor, green developing and fully expanded leaves during the spring and summer, resistance to eastern filbert blight caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala (Peck) E. Wüller, presence of random amplified polymorphic DNA markers 152-800 and AA12-850, expression of incompatibility alleles S 15 and S 21 in the styles, and DNA fingerprints at 14 of 24 microsatellite marker loci differ from both parents OSU 384.095 and ‘Delta’, and from one parent at an additional 6 marker loci.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Corylus plant named ‘Felix’, as illustrated and described.

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