US Plant Patent PP17312
PS-5016
Strawberry plant named ‘PS-5016’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2025. 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
- PP17312
- Filed
- September 9, 2005
- Granted
- December 26, 2006
- Expires
- September 9, 2025
- Assignee
- BERRY R & D INC
- Inventor
- ACKERMAN STEPHEN M; NELSON STEVEN D; NELSON MICHAEL D
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct short-day variety of strawberry plant named ‘PS-5016’. This new strawberry variety ‘PS-5016’ is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California, and is primarily characterized by its large plant size, vigorous growth rate with flowers visible above the plant for most of the year, large foliage size, light green in color and strongly concave in cross section, highly productive with fruit ripening beginning early, and produced fruit is small in size, medium red in color, conical in shape with excellent firmness, gloss and appearance.
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 named ‘PS-5016’, as herein described and illustrated by the characteristics set forth above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17312 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.