Blanc Seedless

Blanc Seedless

Grapevine plant denominated ‘Blanc Seedless’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 2, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 21, 2023. This patent earned 12 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17504, the photograph of Blanc Seedless printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17504, 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.

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of grapevine which is somewhat remotely similar to the ‘Thompson Seedless’ grapevine, but from which it is distinguished in a number of respects by producing fruit with a delayed period of cluster ripening occurring in mid October for harvesting and shipment, or approximately four weeks after the fruit produced by the ‘Thompson Seedless’ grapevine and wherein the fruit is large, having a mild flavor, a light green skin coloration and a firm, crisp flesh.

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1. A new and distinct variety of grapevine plant substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the ‘Thompson Seedless’ grapevine, but from which it is distinguished in a number of respects including by producing fruit which is mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately in mid October in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and which has firm, medium to large berries of light green skin coloration which are seedless and with a mild flavor and crisp flesh.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17504 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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