US Plant Patent PP13612
KEDEM
Citrus tree named ‘KEDEM’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 20, 2020. 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
- PP13612
- Filed
- November 20, 2000
- Granted
- March 4, 2003
- Expires
- November 20, 2020
- Assignee
- ISRAEL STATE
- Inventor
- VARDI ALIZA; SPIEGEL-ROY PINCHAS; FRYDMAN-SHANI AHUVA; ELCHANATI AVRAHAM; NEUMANN HANA
Abstract
A new variety of mandarin citrus is described that is distinguished by very early fruit ripening and by the orange-red color of the fruit exterior skin.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of Citrus reticulata hybrid tree substantially as herein described and shown.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13612 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.