US Plant Patent PP17875

Black Globe

Grapevine denominated ‘Black Globe’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 29, 2023. 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP17875
Filed: January 29, 2003
Granted: July 24, 2007
Expires: January 29, 2023
Assignee: CARATAN INC M
Inventor: GARGIULO ANGEL ANTONIO

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of grapevine which is characterized by producing a large, high quality, seeded table grape which has a dark blue to nearly black skin coloration and is ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately early to mid-September near Delano in the San Joaquin Valley of central California is disclosed.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of grapevine plant as shown and described herein.

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