US Plant Patent PP5629
Summer Granny
Apple tree `Summer Granny`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 24, 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
- PP5629
- Filed
- January 24, 1983
- Granted
- January 7, 1986
- Expires
- January 24, 2003
- Assignee
- ZEE JR DOUGLAS, ZEE MICHAEL C
- Inventor
- ZEE THEODORE J
Abstract
A summer apple tree variety producing fruit having hard flesh, greenish-yellow general color effect, juicy, bruise-resistant, long-keeping, mostly round shape, with good resistance to insects and no evidence of scab or russet.
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 Summer Apple Tree substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination in the fruit produced thereby, of hard, juicy flesh, exceptional bruise resistance, and long-keeping quality, mostly round shape, greenish-yellow general over-all appearance, good resistance to insects and freedom from scab and russet.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5629 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.