US Plant Patent PP8051

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Sweet cherry tree PC 7144-7

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 4, 2011. 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: PP8051
Filed: March 4, 1991
Granted: December 1, 1992
Expires: March 4, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of self-fertile sweet cherry tree which bears large to very large (up to 16 grams in weight) mahogany colored fruits. Its exceptional high quality, heart-shaped, attractive fruits, ripen four to five days ahead of the commercially grown, Bing variety, which it is compared to herein.

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 variety of cherry tree obtained as a seedling of the cross Stella×Early Burlat (both unpatented) is characterized by its high quality heart-shaped fruits that ripen 4-5 days earlier than the fruits of the Bing variety.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8051 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.