US Plant Patent PP7106
Apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 18, 2008. 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
- PP7106
- Filed
- March 18, 1988
- Granted
- January 16, 1990
- Expires
- March 18, 2008
- Assignee
- KOMACHIEN CO LTD
- Inventor
- HATAKOSHI KUNIO
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
Disclosed is an apple tree having a moderate vigor and a good spur-bearing habit and producing a medium size fruit maturing early in the season and earlier than `Tsugaru`. The fruit has an oval shape and a conspicuous appearance caused by a relief of dense and large dots against a solid deep red colored surface, which overlays a yellowish green ground color skin, when not bagged. The flesh of the fruit is yellowish white, moderately juicy, crisp, and hard, and has a moderate sweetness, a relatively strong acidity, and an aromatic flavor, which give a good sweet-acid balance and an excellent dessert quality. The keeping quality of the fruit is superior as a cultivar maturing earlier than `Tsugaru`.
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 illustrated and described herein, characterized over known apple trees by (A) having a moderate vigor and a good spur-bearing habit, and (B) producing a medium size fruit having an oval shape (a) maturing early in the season and earlier than `Tsugaru`, and (b) having (1) a superior keeping quality for a cultivar maturing earlier than `Tsugaru`, (2) a conspicuous appearance caused by a relief of dense and large dots against a solid deep red coloured surface, which overlays a yellowish green ground colour skin, if not bagged, and (3) a yellowish white flesh which is moderately juicy, crisp and hard, has a moderate sweetness, a relatively strong acidity, and an aromatic flavor, and gives a good sweet-acid balance and an excellent dessert quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7106 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.