US Plant Patent PP5171
Tomato plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 20, 2002. 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
- PP5171
- Filed
- January 20, 1982
- Granted
- January 3, 1984
- Expires
- January 20, 2002
- Assignee
- UPJOHN CO
- Inventor
- BRIGGS CARROLL G
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of a hybrid tomato plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized as to novelty when compared to Flora-Dade, Tempo and Walter, the most similar cultivars to it, by uniform crop characteristics, low grading loss, high yield, large fruit, low percentage of fruit ripening defects and multiple disease resistance and tolerance.
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 a hybrid tomato plant substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5171 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.