US Plant Patent PP6580
Strawberry plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 16, 2007. 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
- PP6580
- Filed
- July 16, 1987
- Granted
- January 31, 1989
- Expires
- July 16, 2007
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 strong day-neutral type with exceptionally symmetrical conic fruit of fine flavor; resistant to Verticillium Wilt and capable of fruiting about three months after planting under satisfactory growing conditions regardless of planting time. The plant is of interest in all situations where 'Fern' or 'Hecker' are grown.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new distinct variety of strawberry plant herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above together with the parts thereof.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6580 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.