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US Plant Patent PP27747

PQ2009

Punica granatum plant named ‘PQ2009’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends June 17, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 8, 2035. This patent earned 70 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27747, the photograph of PQ2009 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27747, 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
PP27747
Filed
April 8, 2015
Granted
March 7, 2017
Expires
June 17, 2035
Assignee
ITSAUL PLANTS LLC, MILLER MICHAEL A
Inventor
MILLER MICHAEL A

Abstract

A new cultivar of pomegranate tree, ‘PQ2009’, that is characterized by its flowers that consistently have 6 petals and 6 sepals that are bright orange in color and bloom from spring until first frost in Georgia, its flowers that are borne primarily at the terminals on soft to semi-hard wood, its foliage that is initially bronze in color maturing to a medium green color and persists until freeze (survives frosts), its production of quality tasting fruit on one year-old container grown plants that ripen in late summer to late fall, and its fruit that is sweet with low astringency and little aftertaste.

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 variety of Punica granatum plant named ‘PQ2009’ as described and illustrated herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27747 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.