US Plant Patent PP5264
Soquel
Strawberry plant `Soquel`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 23, 2002. 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
- PP5264
- Filed
- December 23, 1982
- Granted
- July 31, 1984
- Expires
- December 23, 2002
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- BRINGHURST ROYCE S; VOTH VICTOR
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of strawberry plant of the short-day type characterized by its suitability for winter and summer plantings and its runner prolificy in the nursery. The variety is further characterized by its fruiting habit which is earlier and longer than 'Aiko'. The plants of the variety are low to semi-erect and its flowers are self fertile. The fruit is medium conic to very symmetrical in shape, often hollow internally and firm and durable making it suitable for the fresh market and processing. Fruit skin has a finish more glossy and attractive than 'Aiko' and fruit flavor is comparable to that of the best California varieties presently in use.
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 PP5264 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.