US Plant Patent PP7146
Apple tree -- Schneica
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 21, 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
- PP7146
- Filed
- April 21, 1988
- Granted
- February 13, 1990
- Expires
- April 21, 2008
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
`Schneica` is a sport of `Jonagold` having a deeper overcolor intensity and flatter fruit shape, as well as a deeper eye than that of the fruit of the parent. Fruit is less long, lighter and less extensive in coloration, and later to color than that of `Jonagored` which is a solid red, earlier to color and more acid tasting apple.
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 named Schneica as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its relatively deep overcolor intensity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7146 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.