US Plant Patent PP5554
Elm tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 27, 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
- PP5554
- Filed
- July 27, 1984
- Granted
- September 10, 1985
- Expires
- July 27, 2004
- Inventor
- KING BENJAMIN J
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 variety of Ulmus parvifolia is characterized by its rapid growth rate, propagation rate and its leaf appearance which is dark, leathery and semi-glossy in comparison to other varieties.
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 elm tree as herein described and illustrated, primarily chracterized by growth rate, dendritic pattern, vigorous propagation and leaf appearance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5554 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.