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US Plant Patent PP11057

Don Gillogly

Avocado tree named `Don Gillogly`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 22, 2017. 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
PP11057
Filed
September 22, 1997
Granted
September 14, 1999
Expires
September 22, 2017
Inventor
GILLOGLY DON

Abstract

A dwarf avocado tree producing two distinct crops per year of a green-skinned fruit with superior flavor and which said fruit turns black upon ripening.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of avocado tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of avocado tree as described and illustrated, characterized by the superior flavor of the fruit, the fact that it is a green-skinned fruit which turns black upon ripening, and that the tree is a dwarf, which produces two distinct crops per year.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11057 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.