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US Plant Patent PP17301

Ridgewood Cherry

‘Ridgewood Cherry’ cultivar

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 24, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 27, 2021. This patent earned 89 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17301, the photograph of Ridgewood Cherry printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17301, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17301
Filed
June 27, 2001
Granted
December 26, 2006
Expires
September 24, 2021
Assignee
CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
Inventor
WAY ROGER D; ANDERSEN ROBERT; BROWN SUSAN K

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree, Prunus avium , originating as a hybrid seedling of the cross: ‘Starks Gold’ (unpatented)בStella’ (unpatented). This new variety is unique from its parents and other sweet cherries varieties because it is late blooming, dark skinned, dark fleshed, and is self-fertile.

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 sweet cherry tree, named Ridgewood, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized as to novelty by the unique combination of late emerging, self-fertile flowers and good frost hardiness of the flower buds and possessing, fresh market, eating quality, and shipping/handling attributes that meet grade standards for this fruit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17301 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.