Kotaro — plant patent PP12421

Kotaro

Apple tree ‘Kotaro’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 18, 2019. 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.

Figure 5 of US plant patent PP12421, the photograph of Kotaro printed in the patent.

Figure 5 from US Plant Patent PP12421, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number

PP12421

Filed

March 18, 1999

Granted

February 26, 2002

Expires

March 18, 2019

Assignee

NAT INST OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE

Inventor

YOSHIDA YOSHIO; TSUCHIYA SHICHIRO; SOEJIMA JUNICHI; HANIUDA TADAYUKI; SANADA TETSURO; KASHIMURA YOSHIKI; MASUDA TETSUO; BESSHO HIDEO; KOMORI SADAO; ITO YUJI; ABE KAZUYUKI; KOTODA NOBUHIRO; KATO HIDENORI

Abstract

Disclosed is an apple tree having a strong vigor, rounded and serrate leaves, exhibiting excellent resistance to Alternaria blotch, bearing a medium size fruit maturing mid-season and having high productivity with little early fruit drop and preharvest fruit drop. The fruit has a rounded shape with good appearance, having solid, deep red colored skin and having relatively good storage quality, which is slightly inferior to the seed parent. The flesh of the fruit is yellowish white, juicy and firm, and further, has a moderate sweetness, weak sourness and an aroma, thereby providing a good sweet-sour balance, and an excellent eating quality.

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 cultivar of Apple tree, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12421 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.