US Plant Patent PP16898
Macarena
Strawberry plant named ‘Macarena’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 15, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 2, 2023. This patent earned 105 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16898
- Filed
- October 2, 2003
- Granted
- August 1, 2006
- Expires
- January 15, 2024
- Assignee
- PLANTAS DE NAVARRA S A
- Inventor
- RUBIO IGNACIO ABASCAL
Abstract
Described is a strawberry variety having very early time of ripening and abundant production of orange red colored, conical shaped, and firm fruit; and large fruit size.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct strawberry plant of the variety substantially as shown and described.
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