US Plant Patent PP19891

B. Thome McIntosh

Apple tree named ‘B. Thome McIntosh’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends October 19, 2026.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

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The record

Patent number: PP19891
Filed: October 19, 2006
Granted: April 7, 2009
Expires: October 19, 2026
Assignee: THOME BERNARD J
Inventor: THOME BERNARD J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of McIntosh apple tree, ‘Apple Tree named B. Thome McIntosh,’ originating as a limb mutation of the Malus domestica variety of ‘Starling’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,167). This new variety is unique from its parent and other McIntosh cultivars in the greenish coloration of its flesh and the red coloration of the blossom and the leaf petiole.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree, Malus domestica, substantially as herein shown and described.

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