US Plant Patent PP7063

Ginger Gold

Apple tree "Ginger Gold"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 7, 2008. 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: PP7063
Filed: December 7, 1988
Granted: December 5, 1989
Expires: December 7, 2008

Abstract

A variety of apple tree originating as a chance seedling of unknown origin discovered in a replanted Winesap orchard near Lovingston, Va., the variety producing glossy yellow green apples with good keeping qualities, early in the season and in fact substantially earlier than other quality yellowish apples, the new variety also being distinguished because of the smooth glossy skin free from russetting which is common on yellow skinned cultivars.

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 originating as a chance seedling in a Winesap apple block, substantially as herein shown and described characterized particularly as to novelty by the early season of its maturity, the smooth, glossy, brilliant yellow green skin color on the fruit, very long storage life of said fruit, and the unique combination of characteristics which are very different from other yellow green apple cultivars.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7063 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.