US Plant Patent PP6452
Elliot
Pear tree--`Elliot`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 2, 2007. 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
- PP6452
- Filed
- March 2, 1987
- Granted
- December 6, 1988
- Expires
- March 2, 2007
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- RYUGO KAY
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of pear tree primarily characterized by its tolerance to the fire-blight organism. (Erwinia amylovora), and further characterized by a blooming habit concurrent with `Bartlett`; skin with firm and buttery texture, and fruit with a flavor which is excellent to good. The keeping quality of the fruit is good to excellent.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of pear tree herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above together with the parts thereof.
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