US Plant Patent PP4320
Coop 14
Apple tree (Coop 14)
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
- PP4320
- Filed
- August 4, 1977
- Granted
- October 24, 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 H
Abstract
This invention relates to a new cultivar of apple tree which is scab resistant, and characterized by a maturity about 6 weeks before Delicious and about 21/2 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, very good fresh fruit quality, fine flesh texture, and maturity approximately 6 weeks before `Delicious` and 21/2 weeks before `Prima`.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4320 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.