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US Plant Patent PP28932

Trader

Morus plant named ‘Trader’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends July 27, 2036.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP28932, the photograph of Trader printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP28932, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP28932
Filed
July 27, 2016
Granted
February 6, 2018
Expires
July 27, 2036
Assignee
KJELLAND MICHAEL EDWARD, Walla James
Inventor
Walla James; KJELLAND MICHAEL EDWARD

Abstract

A new cultivar of Morus plant named ‘Trader’ that is characterized by its very good cold hardiness and little or no branch die back when grown in North Dakota, its dark purple-black fruit annually with berries ripening sequentially from mid July to mid September in North Dakota, its fruit that lack viable seed with very little seed produced, its plant height of 35 feet (125 year-old tree), its plant habit with a spherical crown that is relatively open (30% porosity when leaved out), and its resistance to spotted-wing drosophila.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Morus plant named ‘Trader’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP28932 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.