US Plant Patent PP11107
Royalton
Sweet cherry cultivar named `Royalton`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 18, 2011. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 1, 2017, but this patent ends 2,022 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
- PP11107
- Filed
- April 1, 1997
- Granted
- October 19, 1999
- Expires
- September 18, 2011
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSEN ROBERT L; BROWN SUSAN K; WAY ROGER D; LIVERMORE KENNETH G; TERRY DAVID E
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree which produces large and firm fruit having rich, strong cherry flavor, crisp flesh and which contain large stones of round to round-conic shape. The fruit has exceptionally high levels of soluble solids at ripeness. A seeding of 'NY1725', the tree is particularly characterized as being self-unfertile, late coming into production, but which bears dark, sweet fruit that is resistant to water stress induced cracking. This vigorous tree is of upright branching habit, forms a tall pyramidal figure, and shows resistance to bacterial canker.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct sweet cherry cultivar as herein described and illustrated.
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