US Plant Patent PP7209
Keystone
Apple tree: Keystone
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 30, 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
- PP7209
- Filed
- June 30, 1988
- Granted
- April 3, 1990
- Expires
- June 30, 2008
Abstract
A new variety of apple tree has a fruit which is a bright yellow color with many fruits taking on a cherry-red blush when exposed to full sunlight; the fruit is generally of a round-conic shape and is less subject to shriveling than Golden Delicious apples when stored; and, my new variety produces high and regular fruit yields.
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 herein shown and described, characterized by a fruit with firm flesh, a yellow color which may take on a cherry-red blush when exposed to full sunlight, and which is of a round-conic uniform shape.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7209 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.