US Plant Patent PP4431
Cherry tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 14, 1998. 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
- PP4431
- Filed
- August 14, 1978
- Granted
- June 26, 1979
- Expires
- August 14, 1998
- Inventor
- NIES MARVIN L
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 cherry tree which is large, vigorous, upright to spreading, dense, vase-formed, hardy, foliated with large, ovate, abruptly acuminate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate, finely serrate margin, medium length petiole, and large, mixed, red glands which are glabrous, compressed, opposite-alternate, and variable in number, blooms early-medium from hardy, medium size, medium length, conic, plump, free flower buds, the flowers being of medium size and white, and is a regular and very productive bearer of large, uniform, symmetrical, semi-freestone fruit having glassy, red skin, and red flesh having lighter streaking radiating from the pit cavity, the pit cavity being a darker red.
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 cherry tree substantially as illustrated and described; the fruit, in comparison to the Bing, is more globose in cross section, ripens more evenly and approximately six days earlier, sizes larger and holds to size with large crops, is of a more attractive glassy appearance, sugar is higher earlier, acid is mild, and the fruit rarely doubles.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4431 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.