US Plant Patent PP27586
Gleam
Raspberry plant named ‘Gleam’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends January 28, 2035.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 6, 2034. This patent earned 175 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP27586
- Filed
- August 6, 2014
- Granted
- January 24, 2017
- Expires
- January 28, 2035
- Assignee
- PLANT SCIENCES INC
- Inventor
- ADAMS SCOTT W
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct everbearing variety of raspberry plant named ‘GLEAM’. The new variety is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California and is characterized by the following: early primocane production with medium to large sized fruit of light-red coloration. Fruit is of consistent conic shape, releases easily from receptacle and is of very good flavor. Foliage is strongly concave, medium green; possessing weak rugosity and mostly 3 foliate. Primocanes have an absent or very weak waxy coat, medium thorn density and have very weak anthocyanin coloration.
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 raspberry plant named ‘GLEAM’, as herein described and illustrated by the characteristics set forth above.
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