US Plant Patent PP9436
Hakko
`Hakko` cherry tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 23, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 4, 2014, but this patent ends 650 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9436
- Filed
- November 4, 1994
- Granted
- January 23, 1996
- Expires
- January 23, 2013
- Inventor
- KONTA KOICHIRO
Abstract
The cherry variety Hakko is selected from seedlings of Sato Nishiki crossed with Jabouley. It has few flowers per inflorescence, a high fruit set, and large fruit with an overall vividred color substantially covering a light yellow ground, light and inconspicuous surface speckling, and a pale yellow flesh color which turns progressively translucent with ripening.
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 cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described herein, particularly characterized by producing medium to large fruit of a vivid red color and an earlier flowering time than the known "Sato Nishiki" variety of cherry tree.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9436 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.