US Plant Patent PP4413
Strawberry plant - Crimson King variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 30, 1998. 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
- PP4413
- Filed
- January 30, 1978
- Granted
- May 15, 1979
- Expires
- January 30, 1998
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES & ORC
- Inventor
- HAGERSTROM MARION
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The new and distinct improved variety of strawberry plant resulted from crossing the Trumpeter variety (unpatented) with the Red Giant variety (U.S. Pat. No. 2,884). The plant bears a general resemblance to the Red Giant variety, but forms fruit which ripens a week to ten days earlier which is of better flavor and remains of a uniform large size throughout the picking season.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a general resemblance to the Red Giant variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,884), but forming fruit which ripens a week to 10 days earlier which is of better flavor and remains of a uniform large size throughout the picking season.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4413 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.