US Plant Patent PP10623
Variety of apple tree Bel-El
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 13, 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
- PP10623
- Filed
- January 13, 1997
- Granted
- September 29, 1998
- Expires
- January 13, 2017
- Assignee
- JOMOBEL NV
- Inventor
- WOUTERS KRIS
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinctive variety of apple tree named Bel-El, a sport mutation of the apple variety Elstar, uniquely characterized from its parent variety by the tree's distinctly-colored branches and the distinctly-colored petioles and nerves in its leaves, and by its less dense, bushy foliage than its parent variety, its fruit further characterizing the new variety from its parent by its solid red color, its longer, thinner brown/red stalk, and by its earlier ripening and picking dates.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of apple tree named Bel-El as described and illustrated, and which is particularly characterized over its parent variety by the red solid flush and longer, thinner brown/red stalk of its fruit; by the earlier picking dates of its fruit; by the tree's distinctly-colored branches which have a red/brown upper side and a green/brown underside and leaves in which the petioles and nerves are green on the upper side and dark purple/red on the underside; and by its less dense, bushy foliage than its parent variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10623 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.