US Plant Patent PP9242
Pearl Street
`Pearl Street` pistache
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 28, 2014. 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
- PP9242
- Filed
- November 28, 1994
- Granted
- August 15, 1995
- Expires
- November 28, 2014
- Assignee
- CITY OF MODESTO
- Inventor
- COWLES PETER; LAGARBO ALLEN
Abstract
A novel male Chinese pistache tree is described, characterized by rapid growth and large trunk caliper in budded nursery stock, upright growing branches that average 52 degree branch attachments, trunk and scaffold branches with strong apical dominance, and a tall, dense, globe-shaped crown.
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 Chinese Pistache tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by a high percentage of upright scaffold branches growing nearly vertical on 4-year-old trees, with solid attachments and a narrower branch angle than that of the Seedling Pistache and the `Keith Davey` variety; superior apical dominance resulting in heavy caliper of trunk and rapid growth of young budded nursery stock 2 years old.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9242 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.