US Plant Patent PP37267
Thompson
Corylus plant named ‘Thompson’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends April 5, 2044.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 11, 2043. This patent earned 177 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP37267
- Filed
- October 11, 2023
- Granted
- February 17, 2026
- Expires
- April 5, 2044
- Assignee
- UNIV OREGON STATE
- Inventor
- MEHLENBACHER SHAWN A
Abstract
A new and distinct Corylus avellana plant is disclosed, distinguished by its low vigor, globose growth habit, production of nuts with round kernels that fall free of the husk at maturity, resistance to eastern filbert blight and big bud mite, S-alleles, nut size, kernel percentage, frequency of nut defects, time of pollen shed, and length of the husk or involucre.
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 Corylus avellana plant, substantially as illustrated and described herein.
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