US Plant Patent PP11070
Geneva 11
Apple rootstock named `Geneva 11`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 21, 2014. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 29, 2017, but this patent ends 1,377 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11070
- Filed
- October 29, 1997
- Granted
- September 28, 1999
- Expires
- January 21, 2014
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- CUMMINS JAMES N; ALDWINCKLE HERBERT S
Abstract
A new and unique apple rootstock, `Geneva 11` that is dwarfing and resistant to crown rot and fire blight.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of apple tree, substantially as shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by being a dwarfing rootstock that is resistant to fire blight.
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