US Plant Patent PP8545
PC
Sweet cherry tree PC 7146-23
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 24, 2012. 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
- PP8545
- Filed
- December 24, 1992
- Granted
- January 18, 1994
- Expires
- December 24, 2012
- Assignee
- UNIV WASHINGTON
- Inventor
- TOYAMA THOMAS K
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of sweet cherry tree which bears medium to large, dark red, mahogany colored, firm fruits is described. Its broadly cordate shaped, attractive fruits ripen 14 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×Beaulieu (both unpatented) is characterized by its early maturing firm fruits that ripen 14 days earlier than the fruits of the Bing variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8545 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.