US Plant Patent PP25740
Treadwell
Pecan tree named ‘Treadwell’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends November 5, 2033.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 19, 2033. This patent earned 109 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP25740
- Filed
- July 19, 2013
- Granted
- July 28, 2015
- Expires
- November 5, 2033
- Assignee
- UNIV GEORGIA
- Inventor
- SPARKS DARRELL
Abstract
A pecan tree distinguished by the following unique combination of characteristics: high precociousness and prolificacy, consistent production (if fruit thinned), early nut maturity, large nut size that produces mammoth halves, unusual high percentage kernel, exceptional kernel color, no kernel speckling has been observed, high resistance to N scorch, black pecan aphid, pecan leaf scorch mite, and good resistance to scab fungus.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of pecan tree, substantially as herein illustrated and described.
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