US Plant Patent PP4615
Apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 7, 1999. 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
- PP4615
- Filed
- May 7, 1979
- Granted
- January 6, 1981
- Expires
- May 7, 1999
- Inventor
- WRIGLEY IRVING H
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
This invention relates to a mutation of the Tompkins King strain of apple tree, and differs therefrom by the solid red coloring of the fruit produced thereby.
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 described in this application, and in particular, characterized by the solid red colored fruit which it bears.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4615 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.