US Plant Patent PP17137
GP-27
‘GP-27’ peach
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 10, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 9, 2024. This patent earned 185 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP17137
- Filed
- July 9, 2004
- Granted
- October 10, 2006
- Expires
- January 10, 2025
- Assignee
- GERAWAN FARMING
- Inventor
- GERAWAN MICHAEL R
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach Prunus persica , tree substantially as illustrated and described which produces large and attractive fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately August 23 to September 8, nearly 2 weeks before ‘Prima Gattie’ peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,085), in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree having the characteristics described and illustrated herein.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17137 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.