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US Plant Patent PP17211

90-3618

Grapevine ‘90-3618’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 11, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 4, 2023. This patent earned 526 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17211, the photograph of 90-3618 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17211, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17211
Filed
March 4, 2003
Granted
November 14, 2006
Expires
August 11, 2024
Assignee
L & M NURSERY
Inventor
GARGIULO ANGEL A

Abstract

The new grape cultivar ‘90-3618’ can best be characterized as a large, productive, seedless, dark table grape with excellent quality for handling abilities. The berries of the new cultivar are sweet and firm with very strong attachment and almost no shatter at commercial maturity. The berries reach full maturity in early to mid-September.

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 grapevine ‘90-3618’ herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17211 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.