US Plant Patent PP3987
H4
Strawberry plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 14, 1993. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 4, 1995, but this patent ends 720 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP3987
- Filed
- December 4, 1975
- Granted
- December 14, 1976
- Expires
- December 14, 1993
- Assignee
- DRISCOLL STRAWBERRY ASS INC
- Inventor
- JOHNSON JR HAROLD A
Abstract
1. The new and distinct variety of strawberry plant herein described and illustrated, and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of strawberry plant herein described and illustrated, and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
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