US Plant Patent PP7001
Yataka
Apple tree: Yataka
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 5, 2006. 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
- PP7001
- Filed
- December 5, 1986
- Granted
- August 29, 1989
- Expires
- December 5, 2006
- Assignee
- MAKOTO OKADA
- Inventor
- HIRARAGI TADAO
Abstract
A new and distinct apple cultivar originating as a bud mutation of the Fuji apple tree, the Japanese leading late maturing apple cultivar. The new cultivar is generally similar to its parent, Fuji, with respect to branches, leaves and flowers, but the fruit is distinguished from the Fuji apple by coloring and maturing one month earlier than the parent.
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 apple tree substantially as shown and described, particularly characterized by fruit which matures and colors earlier than the fruit of the known "Fuji" variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7001 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.