US Plant Patent PP4489
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
- PP4489
- Filed
- October 23, 1978
- Granted
- November 20, 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 day-neutral type characterized by its ability after summer planting in South Coastal California to produce fruit during November, December and January, when California fruit is unavailable from the standard short-day cultivars and its ability after winter and spring plantings in Central Coastal California to produce spring and summer fruit without plant storage. Bract leaves do not normally occur on the petioles in contrast to the important California short-day cultivars. The plants are vigorous and prolific runner makers and with a minimum of conditioning, the new cultivar will flower and fruit effectively independent of day length. The fruit is long conic to flat wedged and fruit color is frequently uneven or burnished, though glossy. Flavor quality is almost equal to the important California short-day cultivars and shipping quality is adequate.
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 PP4489 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.