US Plant Patent PP16444

RT3

Willow oak tree named ‘RT3’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 6, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 19, 2023. This patent earned 140 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16444, the photograph of RT3 printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16444, 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: PP16444
Filed: September 19, 2003
Granted: April 11, 2006
Expires: February 6, 2024
Assignee: TATE RAY
Inventor: TATE RAY

Abstract

A Willow Oak tree named ‘RT3’ and distinguished by having a narrow, upright, densely branched habit with a central leader and also capable of being reliably reproduced from vegetative cuttings.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. What is claimed is a new and distinct variety of Willow Oak tree named ‘RT3’ substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by it narrow, upright, densely branched habit with a central leader.

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