US Plant Patent PP5095
Distinct variety of apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 8, 2001. 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
- PP5095
- Filed
- October 8, 1981
- Granted
- August 30, 1983
- Expires
- October 8, 2001
- Assignee
- HILLTOP ORCHARDS & NURSERIES I
- Inventor
- NICKLIN JOHN
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
This invention relates to a limb mutation of a Cortland apple tree, but is distinguished from it because it develops its fruit color two weeks earlier and the fruit color is 90% red compared with 20-30% for Cortland.
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 apple tree substantially as described and illustrated in this application.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5095 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.