US Plant Patent PP9199
Island King
`Island King` peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 16, 2014. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP9199
- Filed
- June 16, 1994
- Granted
- July 18, 1995
- Expires
- June 16, 2014
- Inventor
- ASDOORIAN ALAN R
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is somewhat similar to the "Queencrest" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,025) from which it is a sport, but from which it is distinguished by producing an earlier ripening fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately two weeks prior to the fruit produced by the "Queencrest" peach tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of peach tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by plant letters patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Queencrest" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,025) from which it is a sport, but from which it is distinguished by producing earlier maturing fruit with good exterior coloration and edible quality which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately April 23 to April 25, or about ten days to two weeks earlier than the fruit of the "Queencrest" peach tree.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9199 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.