US Plant Patent PP6361
Frankad
Apple tree--Frankad cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 27, 2006. 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
- PP6361
- Filed
- October 27, 1986
- Granted
- November 1, 1988
- Expires
- October 27, 2006
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES AND O
- Inventor
- FRANKLIN HENRY E
Abstract
A new and distinct apple variety is provided which is especially well adapted for growing in warmer apple growing areas because of its unusually good heat tolerance. The new variety possesses a medium large upright and spreading growth habit and abundantly forms attractive dessert-type fruit. Such fruit is tangy and richly flavored, and possesses a bright red skin coloration coupled with exceptionally good flesh firmness when compared to other early ripening apple varieties.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by (a) an unusually good heat tolerance, (b) a medium large upright and spreading growth habit, and (c) the consistent production of heavy crops of early ripening large round-oblate sprightly flavored fruit having a bright red skin coloration and firm flesh.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6361 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.