US Plant Patent PP20097

St. Croix

American elm tree named ‘St. Croix’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 9, 2027.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

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The record

Patent number: PP20097
Filed: February 9, 2007
Granted: June 16, 2009
Expires: February 9, 2027
Assignee: UNIV MINNESOTA, ELM TREE FARM LLC
Inventor: BLISKA CHRISTIAN; BLISKA PATRICIA; STENNES MARK; GIBLIN CHAD

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of American elm tree, particularly distinguished by substantial tolerance to an epiphytotic and normally deadly vascular wilt disease of the genus Ulmus known as Dutch elm disease.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of American elm tree named ‘St. Croix’ substantially as illustrated and described.

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