US Plant Patent PP11034
Hartland
Sweet cherry cultivar named `Hartland`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 4, 2012. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 10, 2017, but this patent ends 1,618 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
- PP11034
- Filed
- April 10, 1997
- Granted
- August 17, 1999
- Expires
- November 4, 2012
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSEN ROBERT L; BROWN SUSAN K; WAY ROGER D; LIVERMORE KENNETH G; TERRY DAVID E
Abstract
A new distinct cultivar of sweet cherry (Prunus avium) which is exceptional in combining 1) ability to bear consistently large crops, 2) having wide pollenizer utility, and 3) having a uniquely spreading moderately drooping tree form. The cultivar is named `Hartland` and was tested as NY 3308.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What we claim is: 1. A new and distinct sweet cherry cultivar as herein described and illustrated.
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