US Plant Patent PP17985

Cascade Dawn

Raspberry cultivar ‘Cascade Dawn’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 19, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 15, 2025. This patent earned 93 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP17985
Filed: February 15, 2005
Granted: September 4, 2007
Expires: May 19, 2025
Assignee: UNIV WASHINGTON
Inventor: MOORE PATRICK P

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of raspberry (i.e., Rubus idaeus L.) is provided. The cultivar has an early harvest season and forms large, medium colored, long conic, very good flavored fruit. Based on trials on root rot infested soil, the cultivar appears to exhibit good levels of tolerance to root rot.

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 raspberry plant, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by improved tolerance to root rot.

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