US Plant Patent PP5333
Apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 24, 2002. 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
- PP5333
- Filed
- June 24, 1982
- Granted
- November 13, 1984
- Expires
- June 24, 2002
- Assignee
- CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
- Inventor
- CUMMINS JAMES N; ALDWINCKLE HERB S; BYERS ROSS E
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 apple tree which is vole-resistant and useful for rootstocks and trunkstocks.
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 cultivar of apple tree, substantially as shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by being resistant to pine voles, meadow voles, and crown rot and being easily propagated by cuttage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5333 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.