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US Plant Patent PP6101

Exel's everbearing blackberry plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 15, 2006. 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
PP6101
Filed
August 15, 1986
Granted
February 9, 1988
Expires
August 15, 2006
Inventor
SMITH EXEL R

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

An everbearing blackberry plant having undeveloped seeds.

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 hybrid everbearing blackberry which I have herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6101 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.