US Plant Patent PP6348
Grapevine Micala
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 15, 2006. 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
- PP6348
- Filed
- December 15, 1986
- Granted
- October 25, 1988
- Expires
- December 15, 2006
- Inventor
- ASADOORIAN ALAN J
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. 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 Micala generally resembling the Ribier Grapevine (unpatented) but characterized as to novelty by producing grapes which are ready for harvest approximately August 5 to August 15 at Fowler, Calif., and furthermore by producing berries which are substantially seedless and which have a dark substantially black color.
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 Micala substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized principally as to novelty by its production of a substantially black seedless berry which is mature for harvesting approximately August 5 to August 15 in Fowler, Calif., said grapes maturing in approximately the same season as the fruit produced by the Ribier Grapevine (unpatented) with which it most closely resembles, but from which it is distinguished by producing berries which are substantially seedless and which are significantly different in both size and shape from the Ribier Grapevine.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6348 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.