US Plant Patent PP4553
Apricot tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 22, 1999. 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
- PP4553
- Filed
- January 22, 1979
- Granted
- June 24, 1980
- Expires
- January 22, 1999
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of apricot tree which is dwarf in size (4 to 6 feet), dense and semi-upright in growth and being a regular and productive bearer of early maturing, medium size, firm, freestone fruit of good eating and keeping 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 variety of apricot tree of dwarf size, dense, semi-upright in growth and being regular and productive bearer of early maturing, medium size, freestone fruit of good eating and keeping quality; the tree is further characterized by having close leaf nodes, short heavy branches and a stocky trunk giving the appearance of an attractive ornamental.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4553 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.