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US Plant Patent PP15723

VSL-2

Prunus plant named ‘VSL-2’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 1, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 11, 2022. This patent earned 202 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15723, the photograph of VSL-2 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15723, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP15723
Filed
January 11, 2002
Granted
April 19, 2005
Expires
August 1, 2022
Assignee
KRYMSK BREEDING STATION
Inventor
EREMIN GUENNADI

Abstract

A new and distinct rootstock variety of Prunus named ‘VSL-2’ that is characterized by an absence of suckers, a vigorous growth habit, pink flowers, the ability to serve well as rootstock that is compatible with all other cherries, and the ability to propagate well by softwood cuttings, stool beds and meristem cuttings in vitro. In combination these traits set the new cultivar apart from all other existing varieties of Prunus rootstock.

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

1. A new and distinct variety of Prunus plant named ‘VSL-2’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15723 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.