US Plant Patent PP4359
Coop 12
Apple tree (Coop 12)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 4, 1997. 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
- PP4359
- Filed
- August 4, 1977
- Granted
- December 26, 1978
- Expires
- August 4, 1997
- Assignee
- PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS EDWIN B; JANICK JULES; EMERSON FRANK H; DAYTON DANIEL F; HOUGH L FREDRIC; BAILEY CATHERINE
Abstract
This invention relates to a new cultivar of apple tree which is scab resistant, and which matures about eight weeks before Delicious and four and one-half weeks before Prima.
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 substantially as shown and described particularly characterized by resistance to apple scab, good fresh fruit quality, smooth waxy skin, ability to maintain quality in storage, and maturity approximately eight (8) weeks before `Delicious` and four and one-half (41/2) weeks before `Prima`.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4359 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.