US Plant Patent PP11992
Joburn
Apple tree ‘Joburn’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 26, 2016. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 26, 2017, but this patent ends 488 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11992
- Filed
- November 26, 1997
- Granted
- July 17, 2001
- Expires
- July 26, 2016
- Inventor
- JONES GRAEME; JONES KAREN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of apple tree is a limb mutation of the ‘Braeburn’ variety (an unpatented New Zealand variety), with the fruit of the new variety characterized by a much more highly colored red striped and blushed appearance as compared to ‘Braeburn’. The new variety has been named ‘Joburn’.
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 variety of apple tree which is a mutation of the Braeburn variety substantially shown and described, characterised by dark-red striping and blush which extends over the entire surface of the fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11992 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.