US Plant Patent PP5508
Apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 21, 2003. 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
- PP5508
- Filed
- April 21, 1983
- Granted
- July 9, 1985
- Expires
- April 21, 2003
- Assignee
- GLAZIER JAMES L
- Inventor
- CHICK NORMAN 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
A variety of apple tree of the McIntosh strain, being a full genetic dwarf which even after years of growth maintains short height, the crotch angles of the branches being consistently between 72 and 90 degrees with these angles being maintained without training, the intervals between nodes being consistently short and identifying the tree as a spur-type, propagation on seedling or other rootstock being successful for excellent anchorage, adaptability to a wide range of soil conditions being a very important consideration, the fruit being typical of the Rogers' red McIntosh without any tendency to striping.
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 herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of dwarf size and maintenance of that size throughout its productive life, crotch angles between 72 and 90 degrees consistently, little or no training being required to maintain such crotch angles, short intervals between nodes, ability to propagate on seedling and certain rootstocks for excellent anchorage, adaptability to wide range of soil conditions and the production of fruit which is typical of the red McIntosh known as Rogers, the tree being vigorous, round and spreading with small laterals, and hardy.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5508 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.