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US Plant Patent PP19233

Scintilla

Southern highbush blueberry plant named ‘Scintilla’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 9, 2027.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP19233, the photograph of Scintilla printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP19233, 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
PP19233
Filed
October 9, 2007
Granted
September 16, 2008
Expires
October 9, 2027
Assignee
UNIV FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Inventor
LYRENE PAUL M

Abstract

A southern highbush blueberry ( Vaccinium corymbosum ) cultivar particularly distinguished by having a chilling requirement of 200 to 300 hours below 7° C., a vigorous bush with good survival in the field and producing early-ripening berries that are large, sweet, and firm with a powdery blue surface on the ripe berries, with good scars, firmness and flavor and berries that are borne in loose clusters, is disclosed.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of southern highbush blueberry plant as shown and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP19233 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.