US Plant Patent PP8460
Knottenbelt Red
Apple tree named `Knottenbelt Red`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 23, 2011. 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
- PP8460
- Filed
- December 23, 1991
- Granted
- November 16, 1993
- Expires
- December 23, 2011
- Assignee
- SOUTH PACIFIC APPLE BREEDERS
- Inventor
- KNOTTENBELT ROBERT
Abstract
A new variety of apple originating as a seedling found growing on the Coromandel Peninsula near Coromandel, New Zealand. It is unique particularly for its bright, cherry-red, overall skin color, flavor, taste and high dessert quality and otherwise as herein described.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new variety of apple tree substantially as shown and described herein characterized by its bright red fruit with a rich aromatic flavor and taste, unique ability to store well over long periods of time in both common and controlled atmosphere, and its ability to bear abundantly on an annual basis.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8460 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.