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US Plant Patent PP9255

NJA53

Apricot tree `NJA53`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 18, 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
PP9255
Filed
November 18, 1992
Granted
August 22, 1995
Expires
November 18, 2012
Assignee
UNIV RUTGERS
Inventor
GOFFREDA JOSEPH C

Abstract

A new Apricot Tree cultivar producing very early maturing fruit of very good dessert quality.

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 Apricot Tree cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the vigorous, moderately spreading growth habit of the tree, on peach rootstock, good crop production, very good dessert quality of the fruit which matures very early, and is globose, slightly compressed in shape.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9255 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.