US Plant Patent PP14446
PS-3546
Strawberry plant named ‘PS-3546’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 21, 2023. 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
- PP14446
- Filed
- March 21, 2003
- Granted
- January 6, 2004
- Expires
- March 21, 2023
- Assignee
- PLANT SCIENCES INC
- Inventor
- ACKERMAN STEPHEN M; NELSON STEVEN D; NELSON MICHAEL D
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct everbearing variety of strawberry plant named 'PS-3546' primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California. The new variety is primarily characterized by medium to dark green foliage, strong interveinal leaf blistering, strong leaf gloss, medium to large foliage, longer than to much longer than broad terminal leaf, deep serrations, strong stipule and stolon anthocyanin colorations, conical fruit shape, moderate to marked differences in shape between primaries and secondaries, narrow to medium band without achenes, very good fruit gloss and skin firmness, seeds slightly set above the fruit surface, calyx which tends to be slightly reflexed and fruit and flowers characteristically above the foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct strawberry plant named ‘PS-3546’, as herein described and illustrated by the characteristics set forth above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14446 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.