US Plant Patent PP4121
Royal Gala
Apple tree--Royal Gala variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 4, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 28, 1996, but this patent ends 663 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
- PP4121
- Filed
- July 28, 1976
- Granted
- October 4, 1977
- Expires
- October 4, 1994
- Assignee
- STARK BROTHERS NURSERIES & ORC
- Inventor
- TEN HOVE HENDRIK WILLEM
Abstract
The new and distinct variety of apple tree is a mutation of the Gala apple tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,637). The fruit of the apple tree of the new variety exhibits an attractive appearance and unlike the parent variety possesses an all over bright red color overlaid with obscure darker broad striping. The new variety has been named the Royal Gala variety.
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 which is a mutation of the Gala variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,637) substantially as shown and described, characterized by an all over bright red color overlaid with obscure darker broad striping.
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