Grapevine denominated varietally F.P.C.D.O.V.#1

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 2, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 21, 2021. This patent earned 134 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13607, the photograph of Grapevine denominated varietally F.P.C.D.O.V.#1 printed in the patent.

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The record

Patent number

PP13607

Filed

March 21, 2001

Granted

February 25, 2003

Expires

August 2, 2021

Assignee

DENKEN FARMS

Inventor

ASADOORIAN ALAN J

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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

A new and distinct grapevine denominated varietally as F.P.C.D.O.V.#1 generally resembling in some regards the Thompson Seedless grapevine, but characterized as to novelty by producing grapes which are mature for harvesting or for cane cutting for DOV raisin production approximately 2 to 4 weeks ahead of the Thompson Seedless grapevine growing at Fresno, Calif.

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

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of grapevine, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of grapevine to be denominated varietally as F.P.C.D.O.V.#1 substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized principally as to novelty by its production of seedless berries which are ripe for harvesting or drying-on-the-vine raisin production approximately 2 to 4 weeks ahead of the Thompson Seedless grapevines which ripen at the same geographical location.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13607 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.