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US Plant Patent PP6493

Joe mello

"Joe mello" red raspberry

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 19, 2007. 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
PP6493
Filed
February 19, 1987
Granted
December 27, 1988
Expires
February 19, 2007
Inventor
WILHELM STEPHEN

Abstract

A primocane bearing cultivar of red raspberry designated "Joe Mello" and as a cross of the unpatented cultivar "Reiter 323" and a Canadian cultivar known as "Chilcotin" is disclosed. The cultivar exhibits minutely spiny primocanes with predominately ternately pinnate leaves, minutely prickled pedicels and bright glossy red berries.

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

I claim: 1. The new and distinct cultivar of red raspberry herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6493 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.