US Plant Patent PP10307
BP3
Pear rootstock BP3
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 14, 2016. 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
- PP10307
- Filed
- March 14, 1996
- Granted
- March 31, 1998
- Expires
- March 14, 2016
- Assignee
- US AGRICULTURE
- Inventor
- DE WET ANDRIES FRANCO
Abstract
A new variety of pear rootstock selected from a family of seedling pear trees germinated from seed collected from a wild pear tree. The subject variety produces hearty pear trees having high yield. The rootstock is compatible with all major commercial pear varieties. The variety roots easily and reproduces readily by hardwood cuttings.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new variety of pear tree, referred to by the cultivar designation BP3, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by its ability to serve as a rootstock for grafting of pear tree cultivars to produce pear trees which have a very high yield efficiency, are hardy and are compatible with all major commercial pear varieties, and by its early bearing habit when compared to the commercially used seedling rootstocks and its ability to reproduce readily by vegetative means particularly by hardwood cuttings.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10307 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.