US Plant Patent PP5243
Golden Russet Bosc
Pear tree `Golden Russet Bosc`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 28, 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
- PP5243
- Filed
- May 28, 1982
- Granted
- June 12, 1984
- Expires
- May 28, 2002
- Inventor
- FUKUI SUMIO
Abstract
As a mutation of Bosc, a new pear tree denominated `Golden Russet Bosc` is disclosed which is characterized by the distinct, over-all orange-tinted russet formation on its fruits.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of pear tree as illustrated and described herein, distinguished principally from its parent, the Bosc variety, by the over-all, orange-tinted, unbroken russet formation of its fruit skin.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5243 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.