US Plant Patent PP5442
tree-Schiller
Avocado tree-Schiller
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 1, 2003. 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
- PP5442
- Filed
- July 1, 1983
- Granted
- April 23, 1985
- Expires
- July 1, 2003
- Assignee
- KVUTSAT SCHILLER KVUTSAT OVDIM
- Inventor
- BARKAN PINCHAS
Abstract
A new variety of avocado tree of the Mexican group. This new variety is distinctive in that the fruit ripens early for a Mexican group avocado tree. The new variety produces fruit which is larger and more oval than fruit from other Mexican varieties and which has light green skin on maturity, as compared to other Mexican varieties whose skins turn purple.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new variety of avocado tree of the Mexican group substantially as described and illustrated herein, being distinguished for its ability to produce mature fruit having light green skin and to bring this fruit to maturity about two weeks earlier than the fruit of comparable early maturing avocado varieties in the same growing area.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5442 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.