US Plant Patent PP7502
Aaron Gee
Cherry tree (Aaron Gee)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 29, 2009. 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
- PP7502
- Filed
- December 29, 1989
- Granted
- April 23, 1991
- Expires
- December 29, 2009
Abstract
The present invention relates to a cherry tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a dense, large size, vigorous, very productive tree that produces fruit that is large in size, dark red in color, very attractive cosmetically, resistant to cracking and doubling, and matures in the latter part of May under the ecological conditions prevailing at Le Grand (Merced County), Calif. The tree produces a blossom that is self-sterile, thus requiring cross-pollination by another cherry tree to bear fruit, and the best pollinator determined to date is the Bing Cherry Tree (unpatented). The variety was developed as the result of a second generation seedling from the Bing Cherry Tree.
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 cherry tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to its grandparent, the Bing Cherry (unpatented), by being self-sterile and by producing dark red fruit that is crack resistant, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that is larger in size, 3 days earlier in ripening, and less prone to doubling, and that is also similar to the Tulare Cherry (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,407) by producing fruit that is dark red in color, resistant to cracking and doubling, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by being more vigorous, more productive, and producing fruit that is much larger in size, 5 days later in maturing, and that has a shorter stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7502 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.