US Plant Patent PP4538
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
- PP4538
- Filed
- October 23, 1978
- Granted
- May 27, 1980
- 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. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 best performance in the Watsonville, Calif., area where yield is nearly as much as the heavy yielding cultivars Tioga, Tufts and Aiko on summer plantings and in winter plantings with yield about 80% that of Tufts. Fruit is particularly attractive and firm. Fruit shape is medium to long conic with primaries frequently wedged and slight necked and its skin nearly always smooth and glossy. Fruit is firmer and more durable than Aiko, Tioga or Tufts when grown in Watsonville and somewhat larger than Tufts. Fruit flavor is equal to or better than the best important California cultivars and shipping characteristics are excellent.
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 PP4538 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.