US Plant Patent PP11118
Somerset
Sweet cherry cultivar named `Somerset`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 4, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 13, 2017, but this patent ends 1,317 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
- PP11118
- Filed
- June 13, 1997
- Granted
- November 9, 1999
- Expires
- November 4, 2013
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSEN ROBERT L; BROWN SUSAN K; WAY ROGER D; LIVERMORE KENNETH G; TERRY DAVID E
Abstract
A new distinctive cultivar of sweet cherry (Prunus avium) named 'Somerset' (formerly tested as NY 6476) which is exceptional in combining 1) firm, highly attractive fruit that resist rain induced fruit cracking, 2) a tree habit that branches more profusely than many other cultivars and which facilitates precocious cropping, and 3) having a unique affinity of genetic compatibility with some hybrid cherry rootstock cultivars that cause genetic incompatibility and early decline in many other scion cultivars.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of sweet cherry tree substantially as herein described and illustrated.
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