US Plant Patent PP10459
PC 7222-1
Sweet cherry tree -- `PC 7222-1`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 14, 2017. 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
- PP10459
- Filed
- January 14, 1997
- Granted
- June 23, 1998
- Expires
- January 14, 2017
- Assignee
- UNIV WASHINGTON
- Inventor
- TOYAMA THOMAS K
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of self-fertile sweet cherry, Prunus avium, tree which bears medium to large 9.1-9.5 grams in weight firm mahogany-red colored fruits. Its exceptional, high quality, 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.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of cherry tree obtained as a seedling of Stella (unpatented)×unknown is a self-fertile variety characterized by its early maturing, large, firm fruits that are similar in shape and appearance to the fruits of the Bing variety, but ripen 5-6 days earlier and show no tendency toward Cherry Crinkle-leaf disorder, and by its improved winter hardiness.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10459 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.