US Plant Patent PP9881
Co-op 32
Apple tree `Co-op 32`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 19, 2014. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 22, 2015, but this patent ends 490 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9881
- Filed
- December 22, 1995
- Granted
- May 6, 1997
- Expires
- August 19, 2014
- Assignee
- PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
- Inventor
- JANICK JULES; WILLIAMS EDWIN B; CROSBY JEFFREY A; PECKNOLD PAUL C; KORBAN SCHUYLER S; GOFFREDA JOSEPH
Abstract
This invention is a new and distinct cultivar of apple tree (Malus Xdomestica Borkh). It was discovered in the course of an attempt to develop improved apple cultivars with high fruit quality and resistance to Venturia inaequalis (Cke.) Wint., the casual agent of the scab disease of apple. The tree is a seedling of known parentage planted in Apr. 15,1975 in the HF Block of an apple breeding orchard on the Hinsley tract of the Purdue Horticulture Research Farm, West Lafayette, Ind., in row 34. Because the trees in this row were spaced very closely its tree number was not recorded. When selected it had the designation PRI 2946-1 in the breeding records and was tested under the designations HFRow 34 and Co-op 32.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct apple tree as shown and described, characterized by resistance to apple scab, fire blight, powdery mildew, and cedar-apple rust, and early season yellow apple about 1.5 weeks after `Yellow Transparent` and `Lodi` with very good dessert quality based on flavor and crisp breaking flesh, and excellent storage ability for an early apple.
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