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US Plant Patent PP16766

QHI Sugarbaby

Strawberry plant named ‘QHI Sugarbaby’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 21, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 21, 2024. This patent earned 123 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16766, the photograph of QHI Sugarbaby printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16766, 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
PP16766
Filed
May 21, 2004
Granted
July 4, 2006
Expires
September 21, 2024
Assignee
STATE QUEENSLAND PRIMARY IND
Inventor
HERRINGTON MARK E; MOISANDER JENNIFER A

Abstract

A new and distinct short-day strawberry cultivar is provided. Attractive medium-sized generally conical to cordiform sweet and flavorful fruit with firm flesh is formed in good yields. The fruit is glossy bright red on the outside and medium red on the inside. Resistance to Fusarium Wilt is displayed. The fruiting pattern and yield are similar to the ‘Camarosa’ cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,708) and commonly fruits later than the ‘Sweet Charlie’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,729) and ‘Strawberry Festival’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,739) cultivars.

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 that exhibits the following combination of characteristics: (a) is a short-day cultivar, (b) forms attractive medium-sized generally conical to cordiform sweet and flavorful fruit with firm flesh in good yields that is glossy bright red on the outside and medium red on the inside, (c) displays a fruiting pattern and yield similar to the ‘Camarosa’ cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,708) and commonly fruits later than that of the ‘Sweet Charlie’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,729) and ‘Strawberry Festival’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,739) cultivars, and (d) displays resistance to Fusarium wilt; substantially as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16766 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.