US Plant Patent PP22001

Bailears

Malus tree named ‘Bailears’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends May 12, 2030.

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: PP22001
Filed: May 12, 2010
Granted: July 5, 2011
Expires: May 12, 2030
Assignee: BAILEY NURSERIES INC
Inventor: KOENEMAN JON W; KOENEMAN MICHAEL K

Abstract

A new and distinctive cultivar of flowering crabapple, Malus ‘Bailears’, that is characterized by its small stature, its weeping habit, its foliage that is burgundy in color when emerging and changes to burgundy green in color as the leaves mature, its abundance of purple-pink flowers opening from deep pink buds, and its dark red fruit that is persistent into winter, and its hardiness in U.S.D.A. Zones 4 to 7.

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 ‘Bailears’ as herein illustrated and described.

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