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US Plant Patent PP28200

McDonald

Corylus plant named ‘McDonald’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends January 24, 2036.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 13, 2035. This patent earned 376 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP28200, the photograph of McDonald printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28200, 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
PP28200
Filed
January 13, 2015
Granted
July 18, 2017
Expires
January 24, 2036
Assignee
UNIV OREGON STATE
Inventor
MEHLENBACHER SHAWN A; SMITH DAVID C; MCCLUSKEY REBECCA L

Abstract

A new and distinct Corylus plant named ‘McDonald’ characterized by moderate vigor and upright-spreading plant habit, yellowish-green developing and fully expanded leaves during the spring and summer, resistance to eastern filbert blight caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala (Peck) E. Müller, presence of random amplified polymorphic DNA markers 152-800 and 268-580 in DNA, expression of incompatibility alleles S 2 and S 15 in the styles, and DNA fingerprints at 14 of 21 microsatellite marker loci differ from both parents, ‘Tonda Pacifica’ and ‘Santiam’, and from one parent at an additional 5 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 as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28200 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.