US Plant Patent PP5569
Rico Red
Apple tree `Rico Red`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 18, 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
- PP5569
- Filed
- May 18, 1983
- Granted
- October 8, 1985
- Expires
- May 18, 2003
- Assignee
- MERKELEY DONALD K, MYRICK FLOYD F, TOPINKA WALTER A
- Inventor
- GONZALEZ RICHARD
Abstract
Anatomically and morphologically similar to its parent, Sharp Red Delicious, this new variety produces earlier coloring and maturing apples than those of its parent tree.
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 similar in its anatomical and morphological characteristics to the parent tree "Sharp" Red Delicious, but distinguishable therefrom in the earlier coloration and maturity of its fruit, even under vigorous conditions, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5569 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.