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US Plant Patent PP6724

Hacker

Hacker's August Gold apple tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 23, 2008. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 23, 2009, but this patent ends 365 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

The record

Patent number
PP6724
Filed
November 23, 1989
Granted
April 4, 1989
Expires
November 23, 2008

Abstract

An apple tree bearing golden-yellow fruit in August.

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 fruiting apple tree named Hacker's August Gold and parts thereof as described and illustrated, characterized by its silvery green fruit which ripens to a golden yellow.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6724 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.