US Plant Patent PP10676
Clydesform
Sweet gum `Clydesform`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 10, 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
- PP10676
- Filed
- January 10, 1997
- Granted
- November 10, 1998
- Expires
- January 10, 2017
- Assignee
- FRANK SCHMIDT & SON CO J
- Inventor
- BEAT CLYDE R
Abstract
A sweet gum tree named 'Clydesform' having a columnar growth habit with a narrow overall shape and stiffly ascending branches, a relatively slow growth rate, unusually dark green summer leaf color and corky ridges which develop on vigorously growing branches during their first growing season.
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 sweet gum tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its columnar growth habit with a narrow overall shape and stiffly ascending branches, a relatively slow growth rate, unusually dark green summer leaf color and corky ridges which develop on vigorously growing branches during the first growing season.
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