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US Plant Patent PP16597

Wescot

Interspecific tree named: ‘Wescot’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 7, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 15, 2024. This patent earned 113 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16597, the photograph of Wescot printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16597, 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
PP16597
Filed
December 15, 2004
Granted
May 30, 2006
Expires
April 7, 2025
Assignee
GARDNER LEITH MARIE, ZAIGER GARY NEIL, ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Inventor
ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

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. Fruit ripening in the early maturity season of mid to late May. 2. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 3. Heavy and regular bearer of fruit. 4. Fruit with an attractive orange flesh and skin color. 5. Relatively uniform ripening of fruit throughout the tree. 6. Fruit with good balance between acid and sugar.

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 interspecific tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, spreading growth and being a productive and regular bearer of large, freestone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having an attractive orange flesh and skin color, holding firm on the tree 7 to 10 days after maturity (shipping ripe) and being relatively uniform in size throughout the tree.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16597 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.