US Plant Patent PP11436
Ryoka
Apple tree named `Ryoka`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 11, 2016. 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
- PP11436
- Filed
- October 11, 1996
- Granted
- July 4, 2000
- Expires
- October 11, 2016
- Assignee
- NAKAJIMA TENKOEN CO LTD
- Inventor
- FUNANAKA KAZUTAKA
Abstract
An early to mid-season apple tree variety, Malus Pumila Mill. var., domestica, bearing medium to large fruit which is red overall, easily coloring to the calyx end, and having slightly coarse flesh which is sweet and juicy with many water cores at maturity.
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 illustrated and described herein, bearing medium to large fruit which is red overall, easily coloring to the calyx end, and having slightly coarse flesh which is sweet and juicy with many water cores at maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11436 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.