US Plant Patent PP20590

Lentz Jonagold

Apple tree named ‘Lentz Jonagold’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 20, 2028.

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: PP20590
Filed: May 20, 2008
Granted: December 22, 2009
Expires: May 20, 2028
Assignee: INTERNAT PLANT MAN INC
Inventor: LENTZ WILLIAM JAMES

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Jonagold apple tree, ‘Lentz Jonagold,’ originating as a limb mutation of the Malus domestica variety of ‘Rubinstar’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,167). This new variety is unique from its parent and other Jonagold cultivars in the early coloration of the fruit, the high percentage of coloration of the fruit and the red coloration of the leaf petiole and mid-vein.

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 Jonagold apple tree, Malus domestica , substantially as herein shown and described.

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