US Plant Patent PP9298
Tensei
Apple tree `Tensei`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 3, 2014. 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
- PP9298
- Filed
- May 3, 1994
- Granted
- September 26, 1995
- Expires
- May 3, 2014
- Assignee
- FUKUSHIMA TENKOEN CO LTD
- Inventor
- FUKUDA SATORU
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of apple tree originating as a bud mutation of "Fuji", the Japanese leading late maturing apple cultivar. The new apple tree is generally similar to its parent, "Fuji", with respect to spreading tendency, medium vigor, length of internode, but it is distinguished from "Fuji" by larger size of fruit, leaf, opened flower than its parent.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree, substantially as illustrated and described herein, to be a true mutation of the parent cultivar "Fuji", particularly characterized by its fruit, opened flower and leaf which are larger than the known "Fuji variety".
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9298 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.