US Plant Patent PP7529
Keithsform
Maple tree named `Keithsform`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 5, 2010. 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
- PP7529
- Filed
- January 5, 1990
- Granted
- May 21, 1991
- Expires
- January 5, 2010
Abstract
A novel Acer truncatum tree characterized by its rapid rate of growth, its straight trunk, branches of two year trees which are extremely symmetrical and of substantially equal length and which angle from the trunk at approximately forty five degrees, a brilliant red autumn color which is initiated relatively late in the fall, and a relatively large leaf size.
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 Acer truncatum tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its rapid rate of growth, its very straight trunk, branches of one year trees which are extremely symmetrical; and of substantially equal length and which angle from the trunk at approximately forty five degrees, a brilliant red autumn color which is initiated relatively late in the fall, and a relatively large leaf size.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7529 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.