US Plant Patent PP10832
Cumberland Spur
Apple tree named `Cumberland Spur`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 18, 2017. 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
- PP10832
- Filed
- March 18, 1997
- Granted
- March 23, 1999
- Expires
- March 18, 2017
- Inventor
- DEUTSCHER ROBERT L; DEUTSCHER CAROL J
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of apple Malus domestica tree called `Cumberland Spur` is a mutation (limb sport) of `Oregon Spur` variety, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,816, and is characterized by its fruits which develop early, intense, near 100% red over color as a blush (rather than the characteristic striped pattern of its parent) at harvest time. `Cumberland Spur` blooms 2 to 3 days later than `Oregon Spur` and is ready for harvest 10 to 14 days earlier.
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 (limb sport) of the `Oregon Spur`, substantially as shown and described; and characterized by its more intense and earlier red coloring, near 100% blush over color development, earlier harvest, superior flavor, slightly later flowering and greater packout than its parent.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10832 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.