US Plant Patent PP10325
Biehn
Pear tree named `Biehn`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 3, 2017. 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
- PP10325
- Filed
- February 3, 1997
- Granted
- April 14, 1998
- Expires
- February 3, 2017
- Inventor
- BIEHN NANCY; BIEHN DON
Abstract
A new variety of pear tree discovered as a limb mutation on a Bartlett pear tree, has fruit that ripens from two to three weeks later than the Bartlett, has russeting over its entire development and matures into fruit of a uniform golden color. The fruit has a higher sugar content than the Bartlett and a sweet, spicy, slightly cinnamon flavor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of pear tree, referred to as the Biehn cultivar, substantially as shown and described herein, characterized by its fruit ripening two to three weeks later than its parent, Bartlett, by its sweet, spicy, slightly cinnamon flavor and by its uniform golden russet color upon ripening.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10325 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.