US Plant Patent PP4768
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
- PP4768
- Filed
- May 27, 1980
- Granted
- September 22, 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 distinct spring bearing variety of strawberry plant characterized by its prolific runner production and ability to produce large, glossy, smooth berries throughout the first and second fruiting seasons. The variety is particularly distinguished by having one leaf per plant generally with four or five leaflets rather than three, and further by an abundance of pubescence with pedicel hairs which grow substantially perpendicular to the pedicel. The large fruit and strong pedicel will make the variety popular for "long stem" use.
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 PP4768 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.