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US Plant Patent PP19552

Lowry Red

Pear tree named ‘Lowry Red’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 2, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 21, 2026. This patent earned 165 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP19552, the photograph of Lowry Red printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP19552, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP19552
Filed
March 21, 2006
Granted
December 9, 2008
Expires
September 2, 2026
Assignee
ASSOCIATED FRUIT COMPANY
Inventor
LOWRY DAVID

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of pear tree ‘Pyrus communis L’ and which is denominated varietally as ‘LOWRY RED’ and which produces an attractively colored red pear which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately after September 18 under the ecological conditions prevailing near Phoenix, Oreg.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of pear tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored red pear which is mature for harvesting and shipment beginning approximately after 18 September under the ecological conditions prevailing in Phoenix, Oreg.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP19552 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.