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US Plant Patent PP7216

Doubloons

Flowering crab apple tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 19, 2008. 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
PP7216
Filed
April 19, 1988
Granted
April 10, 1990
Expires
April 19, 2008

Abstract

A new variety of crab apple tree, which I call "Doubloons", has large white double flowers, a generally round habit of growth with upright spreading dense branches and yellow fruit. The new variety is resistant to apple scab.

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 flowering crab apple tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its large, white, double flowers and yellow fruit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7216 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.