US Plant Patent PP74
Apricot
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 26, 1950. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 7, 1953, but this patent ends 893 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP74
- Filed
- March 7, 1933
- Granted
- September 26, 1933
- Expires
- September 26, 1950
- Assignee
- GOSSMAN ANDREW T, YOUNT HARRY
- Inventor
- YOUNT HARRY; GOSSMAN ANDREW T
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP74 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.