US Plant Patent PP4481
Strawberry plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 23, 1998. 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
- PP4481
- Filed
- October 23, 1978
- Granted
- November 13, 1979
- Expires
- October 23, 1998
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- BRINGHURST ROYCE S; VOTH VICTOR
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 of a short-day type characterized by its yield throughout California, equal to or greater than the heaviest yielding California cultivars. The plants are vigorous and prolific runner makers. The variety is particularly characterized by fruit which is hollow centered and medium conic and a high percentage which is wedgy flat ranging to coxcomb. Fruit is larger in size than that of Tufts, Tioga or Aiko and has flavor equal to or better than the best of the important California cultivars. Shipping qualities are adequate if fruit is harvested carefully.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of strawberry plant herein described and illustrated, and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4481 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.