US Plant Patent PP5015
Ulmus
Elm tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2001. 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
- PP5015
- Filed
- April 29, 1981
- Granted
- March 29, 1983
- Expires
- April 29, 2001
- Inventor
- CLEGG SAMUEL E; MCFARLAND CHARLES P
Abstract
A new variety of elm tree characterized by its dark glossy green foliage that is retained until frost, excurrent habit of growth, wide crotches and rapid growth.
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 elm tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized further as to its lustrous dark green foliage that is retained until frost, excurrent habit of growth, rapid rate of growth and with the branches joining the main trunk at an angle more obtuse than is common in other elm trees.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5015 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.