US Plant Patent PP6450
Elstar
Elstar apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 30, 2007. 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
- PP6450
- Filed
- January 30, 1987
- Granted
- December 6, 1988
- Expires
- January 30, 2007
- Assignee
- INSTITUUT VOOR DE VEREDELING V
- Inventor
- VISSER TIJS
Abstract
A new variety of apple selected from a seedling population, characterized by the taste, flavor and aroma of its dessert quality fruits which have good storageability and by its dense bushy foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new variety of apple tree substantially as shown and described herein characterized by its high quality dessert type fruit which possesses an appealing, rich, fruity aroma, solid juicy, creamy-white flesh, and a unique and distinctive taste embracing the best high qualities of both of its parent varieties, its ability to bear regular and annual crops, its bushy dense foliage, its ability to bear attractive overall reddish fruits on golden-yellow ground and the keeping ability of its fruits.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6450 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.