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US Plant Patent PP27659

TCL3

Apple tree named ‘TCL3’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends June 9, 2035.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 9, 2034. This patent earned 243 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP27659, the photograph of TCL3 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP27659, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP27659
Filed
October 9, 2014
Granted
February 14, 2017
Expires
June 9, 2035
Assignee
CRANWELL DAVID F, TE MATA CONSULTANTS LTD
Inventor
CRANWELL DAVID F

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of apple tree is described and which is distinguished as to novelty by producing an attractively colored apple which is ripe for harvesting and shipment on and about the last week of January under the ecological conditions prevailing near Havelock North, New Zealand.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of apple tree what I claim is new and desire to secure by plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree as illustrated and described, and which is characteristic principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored apple which is ripe for harvesting and shipment during the last week in January under the ecological conditions prevailing near Havelock North, New Zealand.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP27659 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.