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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.