US Plant Patent PP5220
Autumn Red
Pear tree ("Autumn Red")
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 8, 2002. 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
- PP5220
- Filed
- November 8, 1982
- Granted
- April 17, 1984
- Expires
- November 8, 2002
- Assignee
- FOWLER NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- FOWLER ROBERT E
Abstract
A pear tree which is of medium size and vigor, rapid growing, upright and tall with straight branches, vase-formed, hardy, foliated with medium size, ovate, taper-pointed, smooth, dark green leaves having a crenate to finely serrate margin, blooms with medium size, light pink to white flowers, and is a regular and productive to very productive bearer of large, uniform size, late ripening, juicy, sweet fleshed fruit; the fruit--in shape--being oblate and conical, ovate, oblique, symmetrical, and uniform, and the fruit having very waxy, highly glossy, deep red to purple-red skin, and white flesh.
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 pear tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by the bearing of late ripening fruit having a waxy, highly glossy, deep red to purple-red skin, and which fruit is in harvest for approximately one month, extending about three weeks beyond the last picking of the Rosired.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5220 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.