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US Plant Patent PP4645

Oroblanco

Grapefruit hybrid

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 20, 1999. 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
PP4645
Filed
August 20, 1979
Granted
February 10, 1981
Expires
August 20, 1999
Inventor
SOOST ROBERT K; CAMERON JAMES W

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of a grapefruit hybrid citrus tree characterized by early maturing habit when grown in the inland citrus areas of California and further characterized by its nearly seedless white-fleshed fruit lacking in bitterness. Fruit is tender and juicy and fruit flesh separates well from segment membranes.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. The new and distinct variety of grapefruit hybrid plant herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4645 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.