US Plant Patent PP12173
Josephine
Raspberry plant named ‘Josephine’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 22, 2018. 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
- PP12173
- Filed
- October 22, 1998
- Granted
- October 30, 2001
- Expires
- October 22, 2018
- Inventor
- SWARTZ HARRY JAN; FIOLA JOSEPH A; STILES HERBERT D; SMITH BRIAN R
Abstract
The present invention is a new and distinct fall bearing red raspberry cultivar named "Josephine', which is capable of producing fruit on primocanes, the fruit being larger, with tougher skin and more cohesive than that of the standard cultivars. The cultivar is characterized by moderate suckering ability and its large, round and extremely symmetrical fruit which ripens later than standard cultivars. Most drupelets tear apart rather than separate from each other and it is common to observe perfectly curvilinear rows of drupelets, i.e. along the latitudinal circumference of the fruit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct fall bearing red raspberry plant known as ‘Josephine’ as described herein, illustrated and identified by the characteristics set forth above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12173 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.