US Plant Patent PP9593
Poppy
Apricot tree "Poppy"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 5, 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
- PP9593
- Filed
- June 5, 1995
- Granted
- June 25, 1996
- Expires
- June 5, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of apricot tree which has the unique combination of outstanding features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Early maturity of fruit. 2. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 3. Heavy and regular production. 4. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 5. Vigorous, semi-spreading growth.
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 by being a productive and regular bearer of early maturing, medium size, yellow flesh, freestone apricots; the fruit is further characterized as having firm flesh with good flavor and eating quality, the ability to be shipped to long distance markets and in comparison to Earlicot Apricot (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,198), the fruit of the new variety is 5 to 6 days earlier in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9593 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.