US Plant Patent PP10643
Gebelle
Picea pungens, Gebelle
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 21, 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
- PP10643
- Filed
- January 21, 1997
- Granted
- October 13, 1998
- Expires
- January 21, 2017
- Assignee
- GEBELLE ANNA M, GEBELLE DAVID J
- Inventor
- GEBELLE ANTHONY; GEBELLE ANNA M; GEBELLE DAVID J
Abstract
A new Picea pungens variety discovered as a chance seedling in a field of Picea pungens seedlings, has brilliant yellow new growth, that hardens to green with a blue tint four to six weeks later, which makes the variety a superb specimen plant for landscape use.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new distinctive and unique variety of Picea pungens tree, substantially as herein shown and illustrated, found in a block of Picea pungens seedlings, characterized by its brilliant yellow new growth which deepens to a golden yellow for about 4 to 6 weeks, and then hardens green with a blue tint.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10643 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.