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US Plant Patent PP4432

Strawberry plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 9, 1997. 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
PP4432
Filed
June 9, 1977
Granted
July 10, 1979
Expires
June 9, 1997
Inventor
MARIONNET ANDRE

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.

Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant is characterized by being an everbearing and very productive variety with the particularity of not producing any stolons. Maintenance of the culture is thus greatly facilitated.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the fact that it is an everbearing and very productive variety with the particularity of not producing any stolons.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4432 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.