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US Plant Patent PP6597

Autumn Bliss

Raspberry plant -- Autumn Bliss cultivar

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 10, 2007. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record

Patent number
PP6597
Filed
September 10, 1987
Granted
February 14, 1989
Expires
September 10, 2007

Abstract

This cultivar was formed by crossing two unnamed hybrid raspberry seedlings bred at the East Malling Research Station, Maidstone, Kent, England. The new cultivar is a primocane-fruiting variety wherein the fruit ripens earlier than the Heritage and September varieties. The resulting fruit is highly attractive, oval-conical in configuration, and medium to dark red in coloration as illustrated.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of primocane-fruiting raspberry plant substantially as herein shown and described together with the parts thereof.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6597 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.