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US Plant Patent PP4819

coloring spur-type

Early coloring spur-type red delicious apple tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 12, 1999. 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
PP4819
Filed
March 12, 1979
Granted
February 2, 1982
Expires
March 12, 1999
Inventor
GREEN LESTER

Abstract

An earlier coloring mutation of Oregon Spur apple, which ripens substantially therewith.

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 identical with its parent "Oregon Spur", U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,816, except it colors approximately ten days ahead of the parent variety.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4819 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.