US Plant Patent PP4519
Cherry tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 19, 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
- PP4519
- Filed
- December 19, 1978
- Granted
- April 8, 1980
- Expires
- December 19, 1998
- 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
An new and distinct variety of self fertile cherry tree which is of small size, (approximately 1/3 to 1/2), semi-spreading in growth; the tree being a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, red fruit of good eating and shipping 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 cherry tree as described and illustrated, characterized particularly by being semi-dwarf in size, reaching 12-15 feet in 8 years, semi-spreading in growth, self fertile and a regular and productive bearer of large, firm fruit of good eating quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4519 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.