US Plant Patent PP4763
Strawberry plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 27, 2000. 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
- PP4763
- Filed
- May 27, 1980
- Granted
- September 1, 1981
- Expires
- May 27, 2000
- Assignee
- DRISCOLL STRAWBERRY ASS INC
- Inventor
- JOHNSON JR HAROLD A
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 ever-bearing variety of strawberry plant characterized by its vigorous plant growth and heavy crops when planted in December. The variety is a prolific runner and is further characterized by its showy long, abundant inflorescence and large amount of pollen, and its reddish-brown pedicels. The fruit is smooth and firm with exerted seeds and rounded at the apex, and has a mild, pleasant aroma and high dessert quality.
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 strawberry plant herein described and illustrated, and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4763 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.