US Plant Patent PP35089
Jefnite
Crabapple plant named ‘Jefnite’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends April 20, 2042.
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
- PP35089
- Filed
- April 20, 2022
- Granted
- April 11, 2023
- Expires
- April 20, 2042
- Assignee
- JEFFRIES NURSERIES LTD
- Inventor
- RONALD WILBERT
Abstract
A new and distinctive cultivar of flowering crabapple, botanically known as Malus x adstringens ‘Jefnite’, that is characterized by its narrow columnar plant habit and its glossy foliage that is purple in color all summer and fall.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of crabapple tree named ‘Jefnite’ as herein illustrated and described.
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