US Plant Patent PP4673
Apricot tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 5, 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
- PP4673
- Filed
- October 5, 1979
- Granted
- March 17, 1981
- Expires
- October 5, 1999
- Inventor
- PETERS RICHARD
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
An apricot tree which bears freestone fruit which most nearly resembles that of the Lulu Belle (unpatented) and Early Perfection (unpatented) but which ripens approximately with the Pomo (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,192) which is normally ten days before the Royal (unpatented) or two weeks before the Tilton (unpatented) and which is characterized as to novelty by its uniformly large size for such early maturity, uniformly truncated shape with unequal sides, and the ability to maintain good condition over a protracted harvest season.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of apricot tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of apricot tree substantially as illustrated and described which is characterized by branches which are relatively more brown and less red in color than the branches of other apricot trees, which bears fruit of uniformly truncated shape having uneven sides, which is of large size, which is early ripening, approximately with the Pomo, is of good eating quality resembling the Lulu Belle and Early Perfection; and is particularly characterized by the good holding quality of the fruit before harvest as well as during packing, shipping and display for sale.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4673 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.