US Plant Patent PP10016
baigent
Apple variety baigent
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 29, 2015. 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
- PP10016
- Filed
- June 29, 1995
- Granted
- September 2, 1997
- Expires
- June 29, 2015
- Assignee
- BROOKFIELD NEW ZEALAND LIMITED
- Inventor
- BROOKFIELD BARBARA CHRISTINE; BROOKFIELD PAUL LEIGHTON PURCH
Abstract
A new variety of apple originating as a limb mutation of Royal Gala (Tenroy cultivar, U.S. Pat. No. P.P. 4,121) is described. The variety was chosen for the unique combination of characteristic exhibited by the fruit. They are distinguished by particularly early red coloring throughout the tree, and have a distinctive appearance of predominantly bright red color and flecks of ground color overlain by a bold darker red stripe pattern that extends over the entire fruit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree which is a mutation of the Royal Gala variety (Tenroy cultivar, U.S. Pat. No. P.P. 4,121) substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by: (a) a distinctive color patern covering the fruit of predominantly bright red color and flecks of ground color overlain with bold, discontinuous darker red striping, (b) particularly early development of fruit red color extending throughout the tree at maturity; and (c) dark coloring of fruit stems, bark and leaves.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10016 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.