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US Plant Patent PP7240

Golden Rey Elm

Elm tree named Golden Rey Elm

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 3, 2009. 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
PP7240
Filed
March 3, 1989
Granted
June 5, 1990
Expires
March 3, 2009

Abstract

A new variety of Chinese Elm having unusual yellow leaf coloring.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Ulmus parvafolia substantially as shown and described, characterized by unusual and attractive yellow coloring of leaves that persists from early spring until the leaves drop in the autumn.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7240 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.