US Plant Patent PP8648
NJ 55
Apple tree `NJ 55`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 18, 2012. 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
- PP8648
- Filed
- June 18, 1992
- Granted
- March 22, 1994
- Expires
- June 18, 2012
- Assignee
- UNIV RUTGERS
- Inventor
- GOFFREDA JOSEPH C; VOORDECKERS ANNA M
Abstract
A new Apple Tree cultivar of the Golden Delicious type, producing fruit of excellent dessert quality and keeping ability, in refrigerated storage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct Apple Tree cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the vigorous, medium upright growth habit of the tree, on standard rootstock, good crop production borne on short axillary branches, excellent keeping and dessert quality of the fruit, which is of medium coarse, flesh-texture, and large round-conic shape, with slight stem russetting, 0-40% blush.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8648 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.