Interspecific tree

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends December 14, 2026.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 27, 2026. This patent earned 170 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18780, the photograph of Interspecific tree printed in the patent.

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The record

Patent number

PP18780

Filed

June 27, 2006

Granted

April 29, 2008

Expires

December 14, 2026

Assignee

GARDNER LEITH MARIE, ZAIGER GARY NEIL, ZAIGER GRANT GENE

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, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. The tree with a vigorous, upright growth habit. 2. Fruit that matures in the early season. 3. Relatively uniform size fruit throughout the tree. 4. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. 5. Fruit with good handling and shipping quality.

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, upright growth and being a productive and regular bearer of medium to large, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by maturing in the early season with firm fruit that is relatively uniform in size throughout the tree.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18780 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.