US Plant Patent PP8433
Gold Brink
Apricot tree "Gold Brink"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 28, 2012. 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
- PP8433
- Filed
- December 28, 1992
- Granted
- October 26, 1993
- Expires
- December 28, 2012
- Assignee
- GARDNER LEITH M, ZAIGER CHRIS F, ZAIGER GARY N, ZAIGER GRANT G
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
Our new and distinct variety of apricot tree has the following unique combination of features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Heavy and regular production. 2. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 4. Vigorous, semi-spreading growth. 5. Early maturity of large size 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 apricot tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, semi-spreading growth and a productive and regular bearer of large, yellow flesh, freestone fruit; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh with good flavor and eating quality, having good handling and shipping quality and in comparison to Flaming Gold Apricot (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,822) it has heavier fruit production and the fruit ripens approximately 9 days earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8433 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.