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US Plant Patent PP20209

American Pillar

Thuja occidentalis tree named ‘American Pillar’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends November 21, 2027.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 6, 2027. This patent earned 15 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP20209, the photograph of American Pillar printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP20209, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP20209
Filed
November 6, 2007
Granted
August 11, 2009
Expires
November 21, 2027
Assignee
HOUSER JOHN E
Inventor
HOUSER JOHN E

Abstract

A sport of the ‘Hetz Wintergreen’ cultivar of Thuja Occidentalis tree (commonly known as arborvitae) called “American Pillar”. It is nearly twice as dense in its branching habit as the ‘Hetz Wintergreen’. It also has a brighter green coloring in the winter. Its increased foliage density makes possible better wind, sight and sound screening with a narrow evergreen hedge. It is reproduced by rootings cut from a parent stock of ‘American Pillar’.

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 Thuja occidentalis tree, named ‘American Pillar’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP20209 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.