US Plant Patent PP11746
Encore
Red raspberry plant named ‘Encore’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 6, 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
- PP11746
- Filed
- October 6, 1998
- Granted
- January 23, 2001
- Expires
- October 6, 2018
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- SANFORD JOHN C; MALONEY KEVIN E; REICH JACK E; OURECKY DONALD K
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of red raspberry plant named "Encore' matures a high percentage of fruit from late July to early August in the East Coast and Great Lakes regions, thereby extending the summer harvest season and decreasing the gap between the summer and fall harvest seasons.
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 raspberry plant, ‘Encore,’ as herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11746 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.