US Plant Patent PP6727

Princeton

Princeton gold

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 5, 2007. 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: PP6727
Filed: October 5, 1987
Granted: April 11, 1989
Expires: October 5, 2007

Abstract

A Norway Maple, Acer platanoides, denominated "Princeton Gold", which displays a bright yellow foliage as the outstanding feature of appearance, as compared with the leaves of other seedlings which are of a normal green color, the bright yellow persisting throughout the summer months and resistant to sun scorching or burning, asexual reproduction establishing the characteristics as continuing from generation to generation.

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 variety of Norway Maple tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of the bright yellow foliage which foliage remains bright yellow throughout summer months and which yellow foliage is retained without sun scorching or burning during this period, the other characteristics being substantially similar to the usual Norway Maple, but rapid growth being an attribute which is of value in such trees of ornamental nature.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6727 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.