US Plant Patent PP7002

Pioneer Mac

Apple tree named Pioneer Mac

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 20, 2008. 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: PP7002
Filed: July 20, 1988
Granted: August 29, 1989
Expires: July 20, 2008

Abstract

A McIntosh type of apple tree discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated area near Marlboro, N.Y., noted because of the resemblance of its fruit to the McIntosh but having more attractive, glassy, red skin, and the absence of speckling and russetting, later maturity and firmer fruit, the comparison being made to an unpatented variety known as the Rogers McIntosh growing in an orchard in which it was discovered.

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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its similarity to McIntosh, but having higher red skin color, glassy appearance, having no speckling or russetting, later maturity, firmer fruit, growing on a tree of medium size, of upright growth habit and having small size leaves, of medium length tapering to an abrupt point.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7002 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.