US Plant Patent PP8701
Apple tree TF812
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 11, 2011. 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
- PP8701
- Filed
- October 11, 1991
- Granted
- April 26, 1994
- Expires
- October 11, 2011
- Assignee
- INTER PLANT PATENT MARKETING I
- Inventor
- THOME HAROLD
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
A new and distinct variety of apple tree originated as a whole-tree mutation of "NuRed Jonathan." The fruit of the new variety is of a more strikingly intense red coloration, fruit is of a larger size, and that fruit has a higher sugar content sooner than the parent variety, allowing for advantageous earlier harvest of the fruit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. The new and distinct apple tree as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8701 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.