US Plant Patent PP5711
Distinct variety of Pinus radiata
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 19, 2004. 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
- PP5711
- Filed
- July 19, 1984
- Granted
- April 8, 1986
- Expires
- July 19, 2004
- Inventor
- STURROCK LORIE
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Pinus radiata. A newly found seedling that has a high branching frequency, superior growth vigor, an extensively developed root system, and primary and secondary needles extending over the entire length of all twigs and branches.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Pinus radiata substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its high branching frequency, needle distribution, above average growth vigor and extensively developed root system.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5711 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.