US Plant Patent PP10740
Silken
Apple tree named `Silken`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 19, 2017. 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
- PP10740
- Filed
- June 19, 1997
- Granted
- December 29, 1998
- Expires
- June 19, 2017
- Assignee
- OKANAGAN PLANT IMPROVEMENT CO
- Inventor
- LANE W DAVID
Abstract
The present invention relates to an apple tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by its spur type moderately vigorous, productive, precocious and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the described conditions approximately the first week of September at Summerland British Columbia. The fruit is medium-sized, oblong to globose truncate in shape with translucent, ivory to soft yellow skin color, sweet in flavor, and has white, crisp, firm, and very juicy flesh. The variety was developed from a seeding from a controlled cross of the seed parent `Honeygold` and the pollen `Sunrise`.
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, originating from a controlled cross of `Honeygold`×`Sunrise` substantially as illustrated and described herein, which is most similar to `Golden Delicious` and characterized as to novelty by the ivory to pale yellow skin color, bright luster, oblong to globose conical and slightly truncate shape, distinct calyx lobing, and the unique combination of taste, texture and juiciness which are different from other dessert quality apples.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10740 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.