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US Plant Patent PP26538

HS RED

Apple tree named ‘HS RED’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends June 6, 2034.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 12, 2034. This patent earned 114 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP26538, the photograph of HS RED printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP26538, 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
PP26538
Filed
February 12, 2014
Granted
March 29, 2016
Expires
June 6, 2034
Assignee
SCHELL HAROLD E
Inventor
SCHELL HAROLD E

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of apple tree is described, and which is characterized as to novelty by producing an attractively colored apple, which is mature for harvesting and shipment on October 2 through October 5, under the ecological conditions prevailing in Chelan County, Wash.

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

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of apple tree, what I claim is new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree, substantially as illustrated and described, and which is characterized principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored apple, which is mature for harvesting and shipment on October 2 through October 5, under the ecological conditions prevailing in Chelan County, Wash.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP26538 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.