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US Plant Patent PP12696

Early Sugar

Table seedless grape plant named ‘Early Sugar’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 23, 2020. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12696, the photograph of Early Sugar printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12696, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12696
Filed
March 23, 2000
Granted
June 11, 2002
Expires
March 23, 2020
Inventor
KARNIEL SHACHAR

Abstract

Described is a new grape variety that produces substantially uniform, large white table grapes on a productive plant.

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 white seedless grape plant known as ‘Early Sugar’ substantially as shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12696 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.