US Plant Patent PP7226
Early eating apple `Or`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 29, 2008. 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
- PP7226
- Filed
- June 29, 1988
- Granted
- May 8, 1990
- Expires
- June 29, 2008
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 apple variety derived by hybridization from 27×Red Delicious×Anna F 2 is distinguished by the fact that it can be grown successfully without the necessity for an extreme degree of cold in the winter season, and that it may be harvested earlier than the nearest comparable variety.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of eating apple substantially as described and illustrated herein, being derived by hybridization from 27×Red Delicious F 2 and distinguished by the fact that it can be grown successfully without the necessity for an extreme degree of cold in the winter season, and that it may be harvested earlier than the nearest comparable variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7226 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.