Variety of Japanese Black Pine named Kanemi

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 12, 2026. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18129, the photograph of Variety of Japanese Black Pine named Kanemi printed in the patent.

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The record

Patent number

PP18129

Filed

January 12, 2006

Granted

October 16, 2007

Expires

January 12, 2026

Assignee

MURANAKA GEORGE, MURANAKA KANEMI

Inventor

MURANAKA KANEMI; MURANAKA GEORGE

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 distinct variety of Pinus thumbergiana named ‘Kanemi’, being distinctively different, smaller in size and with shorter needles, than known Pinus thumbergiana cultivars.

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 Pinus thumbergiana tree, identified as ‘Kanemi’, substantially as shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18129 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.