US Plant Patent PP9835
Asio 1
Asian pear tree named `Asio 1`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 19, 2015. 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
- PP9835
- Filed
- September 19, 1995
- Granted
- March 25, 1997
- Expires
- September 19, 2015
- Assignee
- SUBARASHII KUDAMONO CO INC
- Inventor
- SPIRA JOEL S; SPIRA RUTH R; KONNO EUGENE S; VINCENT NEIL J
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Asian Pear, botanically known as Pyrus pyrifolia is provided. The new cultivar forms early-ripening medium to large substantially round fruit having a pleasant and refreshing semi-sweet mild flavor. The fruit coloration is bright yellow with prominent tan lenticels. The tree is large and exhibits a vigorous well-branched and spreading growth habit. The leaves are medium green in coloration with moderate venation. Picking of the early-ripening fruit commonly can begin during late August at Coopersburg, Pa., U.S.A. Substantial and consistent fruit crops are formed.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar as Asian Pear, substantially as illustrated and described, which: (a) forms early-ripening mild-flavored substantially round fruit that is yellow with prominent tan lenticels that matures approximately two weeks prior to the `Twentieth Century` cultivar, (b) forms a large tree having a vigorous well-branched and spreading growth habit, and
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