US Plant Patent PP11604
Mariri Red
Apple tree named `Mariri Red`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 31, 2016. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 26, 2017, but this patent ends 483 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP11604
- Filed
- November 26, 1997
- Granted
- October 31, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2016
- Inventor
- EASTON DAVID
Abstract
The new and distinct variety of apple tree, Malus domestica, is a naturally occurring limb mutation of the `Braeburn` apple tree (an unprotected New Zealand variety). The fruit of the apple tree of the new variety is characterized by highly colored dark red fruit. Unlike the parent variety, the fruit has a dark red coloration in a solid blush pattern typically covering 100% of the fruit surface. The new variety has been named `Mariri Red`.
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, which is a sport of the `Braeburn` variety, substantially as herein described and illustrated, and which is characterized particularly by the dark red coloration which extends
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