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US Plant Patent PP26645

SPC103

Prunus tree named ‘SPC103’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 6, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 3, 2034. This patent earned 125 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26645, the photograph of SPC103 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26645, 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
PP26645
Filed
March 3, 2014
Granted
April 26, 2016
Expires
July 6, 2034
Assignee
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURAL AND AGRI FOO
Inventor
LANE WILLIAM DAVID; MACDONALD RICHARD

Abstract

A new cultivar of Prunus avium , ‘SPC103’, characterized by its very late harvest season, its flowers that are self-fertile, its intermediate to high precocity of fruit bearing, its spreading growth habit with horizontal one year-old shoots, its fruit skin and flesh that is dark red-purple in color with juice that is high in sweetness, and its firm and moderately juicy fruit that is kidney to cordate in shape.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Prunus tree named ‘SPC103’ as herein illustrated and described.

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