MN121

MN121

Pear tree named ‘MN121’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends February 8, 2042.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 25, 2043, but this patent ends 351 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP35551, the photograph of MN121 printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP35551, 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.

Abstract

A new cultivar of pear tree named ‘MN121’ that is characterized by its good cold hardiness in U.S.D.A. Zone 4; observed for 30 years, its lack of fire blight infection in field observations on test trees, its fruit with a storage life of approximately three months in refrigerated storage with ambient atmosphere, its fruit that ripen in mid-August in central Minnesota, its fruit with a crisp texture and a sweet and pleasing flavor similar to that of an Asian pear, its fruit that is oval to elliptic in shape, and its fruit that may be picked ripe for immediate consumption with no after-ripening required.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of pear tree named ‘MN121’ as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP35551 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract