US Plant Patent PP6172
Apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 28, 2005. 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
- PP6172
- Filed
- May 28, 1985
- Granted
- May 10, 1988
- Expires
- May 28, 2005
- Assignee
- COLUMBIA AND OKANOGAN NURSERY
- Inventor
- CREECH JOHN V
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 a mutation of the Gala apple variety GALA (KIDD's D-8), wherein the fruit of the new variety presents a bright scarlet red color which extends uniformly over substantially the entire body of the fruit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of apple tree which is a mutation of the Gala variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,637) substantially as shown and described, characterized--in comparison with said Gala variety and with the Royal Gala variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,121--by a brighter and scarlet red color uniformly distributed over substantially the whole area of the fruit, by a smaller calyx and calyx basin, and by a shorter and thicker stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6172 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.