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US Plant Patent PP26680

SPC136

Prunus tree named ‘SPC136’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 8, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 25, 2034. This patent earned 133 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26680, the photograph of SPC136 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26680, 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
PP26680
Filed
February 25, 2014
Granted
May 3, 2016
Expires
July 8, 2034
Assignee
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD
Inventor
LANE WILLIAM DAVID; MACDONALD RICHARD

Abstract

A new cultivar of Prunus avium , ‘SPC136’, characterized by its mid-season fruit harvest, its flowers that are not self-fertile, lateness of bloom, its intermediate precocity of fruit bearing, its upright growth habit, its fruit skin that is wine red in color and flesh that is dark red to black in color, its large flowers with wide petals, and its firm, very large, kidney-shaped fruit.

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 ‘SPC136’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26680 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.