US Plant Patent PP5856
Grape vine
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 13, 2004. 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
- PP5856
- Filed
- March 28, 1983
- Granted
- January 13, 1987
- Expires
- January 13, 2004
- Inventor
- GARABEDIAN JOHN M
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
Disclosed is a new and distinct grape vine broadly characterized by its berries which are greener in color, much larger, and with more cylindrical berries than the natural, ungibbrelled and ungirdled Thompson seedless grape which it most resembles, and by its early ripening date approximately one month before the natural Thompson seedless grape, its high sugar test and its low sugar-acid ratio.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described a new grape vine, what is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of grape vine substantially as illustrated and described and being characterized by its early maturity, approximately one month earlier than the Thompson seedless grape variety; by berries which are greener in color than the Thompson seedless grape at similar conditions of ripening; by berries larger and more cylindrical than the natural ungibbrelled and ungirdled Thompson seedless grape berries at similar conditions of ripening; and by some berries having a residual seed trace.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5856 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.