US Plant Patent PP8674
NJA54
Apricot tree NJA54
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
- PP8674
- Filed
- November 18, 1992
- Granted
- April 5, 1994
- Expires
- November 18, 2012
- Assignee
- UNIV RUTGERS
- Inventor
- GOFFREDA JOSEPH C
Abstract
A new apricot tree cultivar producing early maturing fruit of very good dessert and canning qualities.
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 moderately vigorous, upright growth habit of the tree, on peach rootstock, excellent dessert and canning quality of the fruit which matures early, and is globose, slightly compressed in shape.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8674 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.