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US Plant Patent PP10275

Shufra

`Shufra` Pistachio tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 28, 2016. 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
PP10275
Filed
October 28, 1996
Granted
March 10, 1998
Expires
October 28, 2016
Inventor
NEVO AMRAM

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of pistachio tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the `Kerman` pistachio tree, but from which it is distinguished in a number of respects including by producing its crop with many fewer hours of winter chilling, by having more compact configurations permitting the trees of the new variety to be planted in patterns of greater density, by producing a crop which is mature for harvesting and shipment in Omer, Israel approximately eight days prior to the crop of the `Kerman` pistachio tree, and by producing a crop which equals or exceeds the quality of that of the `Kerman` pistachio tree in nearly all respects.

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

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of pistachio tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of pistachio tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the `Kerman` pistachio tree, but from which it is distinguished in a number of respects including that the trees are capable of producing a high quality crop with many fewer hours of winter chilling; the trees are compact and thus can be planted in patterns of greater density; and by producing its crop which is mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately September 5, or about eight days earlier than the `Kerman` pistachio tree in Omer, Israel.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10275 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.