US Plant Patent PP8477
Cripps-Two
Apple tree `Cripps-Two` cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 3, 2012. 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
- PP8477
- Filed
- April 3, 1992
- Granted
- November 30, 1993
- Expires
- April 3, 2012
- Assignee
- CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF DEP
- Inventor
- CRIPPS JOHN E
Abstract
A new variety of apple tree selected from a seedling population of a planned cross, characterized by the taste, low winter chilling requirements and its high dessert quality fruits which have good cold storage and retail shelf life.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new variety of apple tree substantially as herein shown and described characterized by its ability to produce high quality dessert type late maturing fruits on spurs growing on upright limbs which possess firm, juicy, creamy-white flesh and excellent storage characteristics.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8477 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.