US Plant Patent PP11108
Surefire
Sour cherry cultivar named `Surefire`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 4, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 30, 2017, but this patent ends 1,334 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11108
- Filed
- June 30, 1997
- Granted
- October 26, 1999
- Expires
- November 4, 2013
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSEN ROBERT L; BROWN SUSAN K; WAY ROGER D; LIVERMORE KENNETH G; TERRY DAVID E
Abstract
A new distinctive cultivar of sour cherry (Prunus cersus) which is exceptional in combining 1) high quality, totally red fruit, 2) a tree habit that has fewer lateral and secondary lateral branches than many other cultivars and which facilitates ease of hand harvesting, and 3) having a unique late season anthesis of its flowers so that they evade spring frost damage. The cultivar is named `Surefire` and was tested as NY 12716.
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 sour cherry cultivar as herein described and illustrated.
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