US Plant Patent PP8707
Belle Cox
Apple tree named `Belle Cox`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 28, 2012. 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
- PP8707
- Filed
- August 28, 1992
- Granted
- May 3, 1994
- Expires
- August 28, 2012
- Assignee
- KNOTTENBELT META, KNOTTENBELT ROBERT
- Inventor
- KNOTTENBELT ROBERT; KNOTTENBELT META
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of apple tree called Belle Cox is a mutation of Bledisloe Cox's Orange Pippin variety, and is characterized by its fruit which has broad red stripes of 50-70% on a yellow-green background after ten weeks in cool storage. Belle Cox also blooms 5-7 days later than its parent, Cox's Orange Pippin (Bledisloe).
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 Bledisloe Cox's Orange Pippin variety, substantially as shown and described characterised by its striped red overcolour.
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