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US Plant Patent PP6733

Powell Late Navel

Navel orange plant named Powell Late Navel

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 18, 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
PP6733
Filed
November 18, 1987
Granted
April 11, 1989
Expires
November 18, 2007

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of navel orange plant, named Powell Late Navel, characterized by late maturing habits when grown in the inland citrus areas of New South Wales, Australia, and further characterized by its seedless deep orange fruit, the juice of which is characterized by the absence of the bitter taste associated with limionin levels which normally develop after navel oranges are juiced.

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

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of navel orange plant named Powell Late Navel, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6733 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.