US Plant Patent PP6815
Kiwifruit plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 23, 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
- PP6815
- Filed
- March 27, 1986
- Granted
- May 23, 1989
- Expires
- May 23, 2006
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 distinctive variety of kiwifruit is described. This fruit is a sport or mutation of the `Hayward` variety. It is distinguished by its long and substantially cylindrical fruit. It was first observed in a kiwifruit orchard in Pongakawa, New Zealand.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of kiwifruit plant herein described and illustrated, and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6815 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.