US Plant Patent PP16733
BAKharl
Sugar maple tree named ‘BAKharl’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 28, 2024. 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
- PP16733
- Filed
- June 28, 2004
- Granted
- June 27, 2006
- Expires
- June 28, 2024
- Assignee
- BAKER WEST INC
- Inventor
- BAKER SR ROBERT W
Abstract
A sugar maple tree named ‘BAKharl’ having a brilliant and unique fall color presentation and an upright structure that develops into a full and spreading crown.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of sugar maple tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its brilliant and unique fall color presentation and its upright structure that develops into a full and spreading crown.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16733 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.