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US Plant Patent PP5697

Tummelberry

Tummelberry

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 5, 2004. 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
PP5697
Filed
June 5, 1984
Granted
March 25, 1986
Expires
June 5, 2004
Inventor
JENNINGS DEREK L

Abstract

The invention relates to a new and distinct hybrid Rubus variety which has been named the Tummelberry. The subject variety was formed by crossing seedling 69102/18, an unnamed hybrid bred at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, with the Tayberry as pollen parent. The variety resembles the Tayberry in some respects, but differs from it in the flavor, size, shape and color of its fruit, in the season of ripening and in the intensity of red pigments present in the stems and leaves.

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 hybrid Rubus substantially as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5697 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.