US Plant Patent PP36975
WCE
Elderberry plant named ‘WCE’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends February 20, 2044.
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
- PP36975
- Filed
- February 20, 2024
- Granted
- September 23, 2025
- Expires
- February 20, 2044
- Assignee
- CHILDS CARRIE, CHILDS DANIEL
- Inventor
- CHILDS DANIEL; CHILDS CARRIE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of elderberry plant ‘WCE’ selected to provide a fruit which is firmer and sweeter in taste than the fruit of known cultivars and wild elderberry plants known to the Inventors. Compared to other wild and commercial cultivars known to the Inventors, the present invention yields clusters of berries which will consistently ripen 99% of the fruits within every fruit raceme.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of elderberry plant named ‘WCE’ as illustrated and described herein.
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