Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP15088

Interspecific tree named: Marcia's Flavor

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 3, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 23, 2022. This patent earned 42 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15088, the photograph of Interspecific tree named: Marcia's Flavor printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15088, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP15088
Filed
December 23, 2002
Granted
August 17, 2004
Expires
February 3, 2023
Inventor
ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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

A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Vigorous, upright tree growth with heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 4. Fruit with high Brix (soluble solids) average of 19.2°. 5. Maturity of fruit being relatively uniform throughout the tree. 6. Firm fruit with good storage and shipping quality.

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 and distinct variety of interspecific tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous upright growth and being a productive and regular bearer of large size, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having good storage and shipping quality and, in comparison to the ‘Flavor Gem’ Interspecific (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,915) the fruit is clingstone instead of freestone and is approximately 20 days earlier in maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15088 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.