US Plant Patent PP11012
Marquis
Grape cultivar `Marquis`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 21, 2016. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 23, 2017, but this patent ends 490 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11012
- Filed
- September 23, 1997
- Granted
- July 20, 1999
- Expires
- May 21, 2016
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- REISCH BRUCE I; POOL ROBERT; REMAILY GEORGE; EINSET JOHN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of grapevine (Vitis interspecific hybrid (V. vinifera, V. labrusca)) named `Marquis` and tested as NY64.029.01, which originiated as a cross of `Athens` and `Emerald Seedless` is described. This new variety can be distinguished by its large normally yellow-green berries borne on large clusters, excellent flavor, and good cold hardiness. It offers growers and consumers a large, attractive, flavorful fruit that serves as a seedless table grape.
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 variety of grapevine herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
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