US Plant Patent PP4370
Compact peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 21, 1997. 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
- PP4370
- Filed
- December 21, 1977
- Granted
- January 23, 1979
- Expires
- December 21, 1997
- Assignee
- WELL NURSERY INC VAN
- Inventor
- VAN WELL PETER J
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 compact, semi-dwarf peach tree, this new variety is also characterized in its development of more fruit buds per lineal foot than with the Gold Medal tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus disclosed my improved variety, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree characterized as to novelty by its compact, semi-dwarf habit of growth, by the development of more fruit buds than are normally found on trees of the standard Gold Medal variety, and by the more vigorous growth and fruit bearing capabilities of its lateral buds along most of its terminal shoots.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4370 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.