US Plant Patent PP9541
Romagold
Apple tree `Romagold`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 7, 2013. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 15, 2014, but this patent ends 496 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9541
- Filed
- September 15, 1994
- Granted
- May 7, 1996
- Expires
- May 7, 2013
- Inventor
- SURKIJN ROMAIN
Abstract
A new variety of apple originating as a spontaneous limb mutation of its parent vairety Jonagold (unpatented) and unique particularly for its over-all, early, broadly striped, red skin color pattern, its tart-like flavor, taste and high dessert quality and otherwise as herein described.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new variety of apple tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its early coloring red fruits which differ from fruits produced by its parent variety Jonagold and from all other known sport varieties of red Jonagold by their distinct broadly striped red color pattern which remains are harvest.
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