US Plant Patent PP4464
Fruitless olive tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 3, 1998. 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
- PP4464
- Filed
- August 3, 1978
- Granted
- October 16, 1979
- Expires
- August 3, 1998
- Inventor
- WILSON RICHARD P
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 and distinct variety of olive tree characterized by its robust growth pattern, thicker leaves, fuller appearance and its inability to produce fruit.
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 olive tree as described and shown herein, characterized particularly by its more robust growth pattern, its thicker leaves and its fuller appearance, all as compared with the Manzanillo variety, and by its lack of fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4464 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.