US Plant Patent PP11213
Delkistar
Apple tree named `Delkistar`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 12, 2018. 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
- PP11213
- Filed
- January 12, 1998
- Granted
- February 8, 2000
- Expires
- January 12, 2018
- Assignee
- SOCIETEANONYME DES PEPINIERES
- Inventor
- GUILLIER GERARD
Abstract
The new apple cultivar was formed through the crossing of the `Kidd's Orange Red` cultivar (non-patented in the United States) and the `Bisbee Red Delicious` cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,565). The new cultivar displays a vigorous growth habit and is ready for harvest at mid-season. The fruit is juicy and exhibits substantial resistance to darkening when exposed to ambient conditions. The fruit is substantially asymmetric conical in configuration and is red in color (as illustrated).
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 cultivar of apple tree having the following combination of characteristics: (a) exhibits a vigorous growth habit, (b) commonly yields an apple crop during mid-season, (c) forms attractive large substantially asymmetric conical fruit on the tips of shoots which bears a red flush, and (d) forms juicy fruit flesh that exhibits substantial resistance to darkening upon exposure to ambient conditions; substantially as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11213 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.