US Plant Patent PP11246
Wiffen Summer Navel
Navel orange tree named `Wiffen Summer Navel`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 23, 2017. 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
- PP11246
- Filed
- June 23, 1997
- Granted
- February 29, 2000
- Expires
- June 23, 2017
- Assignee
- YANDILLA PARK LTD
- Inventor
- WEIGALL ANDREW
Abstract
The invention provides for a novel navel orange tree named Wiffen Summer Navel. It is characterized by a later fruit maturity in comparison with other later navel varieties, such as the Lane Late navel varieties.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of navel orange tree substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by a relatively late maturing fruit in comparison with other known late navel varieties.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11246 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.