US Plant Patent PP37032
BENITSURUGI
Apple tree named ‘BENITSURUGI’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends July 31, 2044.
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
- PP37032
- Filed
- July 31, 2024
- Granted
- October 21, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2044
- Assignee
- NAT AGRICULTURE & FOOD RES ORG
- Inventor
- SAWAMURA YUTAKA; MORIYA SHIGEKI; ABE KAZUYUKI; OKADA KAZUMA; SHIMIZU TAKU; IWANAMI HIROSHI; KOTODA NOBUHIRO; HAJI TAKASHI; TAKAHASHI SAE; MORIYA YUKI; NESUMI HIROHISA; HORI AYATO; BABA TAKASHI
Abstract
A new variety of apple tree ‘BENITSURUGI’ that has columnar tree type, bearing on spurs only, thick to very thick shoot thickness, short internode length, long leaf blade length, long petiole length, short to medium fruit stalk length, medium size and short to medium height fruit with fully open locules.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I/we claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree named ‘BENITSURUGI’, substantially as described and illustrated herein.
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