US Plant Patent PP8991
Strawberry Seneca
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 29, 2011. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 26, 2013, but this patent ends 455 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP8991
- Filed
- February 26, 1993
- Granted
- November 29, 1994
- Expires
- November 29, 2011
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- SANFORD JOHN; OURECKY DONALD; REICH II JACK; MALONEY KEVIN
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 (FragariaxAnanassa) which is exceptional in combining large yield, potential large fruit size, extreme fruit firmness and good fruit quality. The strawberry is named 'Seneca' and was tested as NY 1529.
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 herein described and illustrated and identified by the characters enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8991 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.