US Plant Patent PP9907
Hein
Apple tree: `Hein` cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 17, 2016. 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
- PP9907
- Filed
- January 17, 1996
- Granted
- June 3, 1997
- Expires
- January 17, 2016
- Assignee
- COLUMBIA BASIN NURSERY
- Inventor
- HEIN ROBERT J
Abstract
The Hein Cultivar is a new variety of apple tree, similar to Golden Delicious and other predominantly yellow-fruited cultivars, characterized by an attractive pink blush on exposed fruits, freedom from russet, and with maturity two weeks later than Golden Delicious.
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 shown and described herein.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9907 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.