US Plant Patent PP14299

Irene

Apple tree named ‘Irene’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 18, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 13, 2022. This patent earned 5 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14299, the photograph of Irene printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14299, 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: PP14299
Filed: February 13, 2002
Granted: November 11, 2003
Expires: February 18, 2022
Inventor: TEAGUE GLEN A

Abstract

A new and distinctive variety of an apple tree, named 'Irene,' distinguished by an early harvest date, large fruit, typical annual double-blooming when grown in Nyssa, Oreg., and field resistance to powdery mildew and fire blight.

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 variety of apple tree named ‘Irene’, substantially as herein shown and described.

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