US Plant Patent PP22034
JFS-KW8
Sugar maple tree named ‘JFS-KW8’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends April 2, 2030.
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
- PP22034
- Filed
- April 2, 2010
- Granted
- July 19, 2011
- Expires
- April 2, 2030
- Assignee
- FRANK SCHMIDT & SON CO J
- Inventor
- WARREN KEITH S
Abstract
A variety of sugar maple which combines unusually dark green summer foliage and bright red fall color with an upright branch orientation, straight trunk, and narrowly oval to oval canopy shape.
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.
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