US Plant Patent PP17748

Summer Wonder

Malus ‘Summer Wonder’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 25, 2024. 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP17748
Filed: October 25, 2004
Granted: May 22, 2007
Expires: October 25, 2024
Assignee: GILL KENNETH RAY
Inventor: GILL KENNETH RAY

Abstract

Mr. Kenneth Gill in Baileyton, Ala. introduces a cultivated seedling selection of Malus ‘Antoanovka’ named ‘Summer Wonder’ which offers the landscape industry a unique disease resistant purple-leafed crabapple with stable color in southern climates (zones 7b/8a) with pinkishreddish purple flowers and desirably small fruit for the urban landscape.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Malus tree named ‘Summer Wonder’, as herein described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17748 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.