US Plant Patent PP13470

QLFTB

Overcup oak tree named ‘QLFTB’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 7, 2021. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13470, the photograph of QLFTB printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13470, 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: PP13470
Filed: June 7, 2001
Granted: January 14, 2003
Expires: June 7, 2021
Assignee: TREE INTRODUCTIONS INC
Inventor: STRICKLAND THOMAS JULIAN

Abstract

A Overcup Oak tree named ‘QLFTB’ having dense, upright, uniform branching habit, yellow-orange-red fall color, and fast growth rate and also which is capable of being reproduced reliably using vegetative cuttings.

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 Overcup Oak tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its unique dense, upright, uniform branching habit, yellow-orange-red fall color, and fast growth rate.

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