US Plant Patent PP8543
Geneva 65
Flowering crab apple/apple rootstock `Geneva 65`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 16, 2011. 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
- PP8543
- Filed
- September 16, 1991
- Granted
- January 18, 1994
- Expires
- September 16, 2011
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- CUMMINS JAMES N; ALDWINCKLE HERBERT S
Abstract
A new and unique apple rootstock `Geneva 65` that is very dwarfing and resistant to crown rot and fire blight. The tree is also useful as a small ornamental flowering crab.
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 cultivar of apple tree, substantially as shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by being a very dwarfing rootstock that is resistant to crown rot and to fire blight.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8543 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.