US Plant Patent PP4914
Yellow Delicious
Apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 25, 2000. 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
- PP4914
- Filed
- February 25, 1980
- Granted
- November 2, 1982
- Expires
- February 25, 2000
- Inventor
- AUFFET JOHNNY W
Abstract
An apple tree bearing non-russeting fruit which is firm though early, and which has a clean, clear flavor when fully ripe.
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 and illustrated and particularly characterized by a firm, non-russeting, bruise resistant, thin-skinned, fruit, maturing about thirty (30) days prior to "Yellow Delicious" grown in the same area, and further characterized by a high ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content, while the tree has self-thinning characteristics and the leaves have ribs or veins which curve outwardly more than upwardly.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4914 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.