US Plant Patent PP5680
Mars
Grapevine--Mars Cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 5, 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
- PP5680
- Filed
- July 5, 1984
- Granted
- March 4, 1986
- Expires
- July 5, 2004
- Assignee
- UNIV ARKANSAS AGRICULTURAL EXP
- Inventor
- MOORE JAMES N
Abstract
Description and specifications of a new and distinct grapevine variety which originated from seed produced by a hand-pollinated cross of Island Belle (non-patented) and Arkansas Selection 1339 (non-patented) is provided. This new grapevine variety can be distinguished by its early ripening fruit, its attractive blue fruit color, and by its outstanding resistance to foliar and fruit diseases.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of grapevine, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its early ripening, large seedless fruit, and outstanding resistance to common grape fungus pathogens.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5680 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.