US Plant Patent PP4820
Apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 13, 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
- PP4820
- Filed
- November 13, 1979
- Granted
- February 2, 1982
- Expires
- November 13, 1999
- Assignee
- COLUMBIA & OKANOGAN NURSERY IN
- Inventor
- HARVEY RICHARD A
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
An early ripening yellow-green apple with uniformly round form and a smooth skin, the fruit having a high total solids and acid level making for excellent keeping qualities. The leaves of the new tree resemble those of standard Red Delicious while the color of the skin of the fruit is slightly greener than that of standard Golden Delicious.
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 early ripening apple tree with yellowish-green, smooth-skinned fruit of medium size as compared with Golden Delicious and Yellow Transparent, a relatively high total solids and acid content, medium size and uniform roundish-conical shape, as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4820 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.