US Plant Patent PP17655

BSNUPF

Chinese Elm tree named ‘BSNUPF’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 2, 2025. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17655, the photograph of BSNUPF printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17655, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP17655
Filed: December 2, 2005
Granted: April 24, 2007
Expires: December 2, 2025
Assignee: ATHENA TREES INC
Inventor: BARBOUR JOHN HINDS

Abstract

A Chinese Elm tree named ‘BSNUPF’ having tight upright narrow growth, tight branches, and ornamental bark that exfoliates in patches to provide patch marks of different colors.

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 Chinese Elm tree named ‘BSNUPF,’ substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its tight upright narrow growth, tight branches, and ornamental bark that exfoliates in patches to provide patch marks of different colors.

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