US Plant Patent PP8950
P.F. 12A peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 26, 2013. 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
- PP8950
- Filed
- July 26, 1993
- Granted
- October 18, 1994
- Expires
- July 26, 2013
- Inventor
- FRIDAY PAUL J
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. 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 peach tree having the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Producing a very form fruit. 2. A unique partially showy blossom. 3. A substantially spheroidal fruit with an attractive red skin covering about 80% of the surface at maturity. 4. A fruit maturing about 4 days later than the Redhaven peach. 5. A fruit of good quality and taste.
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 peach tree substantially as illustrated and described of large size, vigorous and upright in growth and a regular and productive bearer of large size, yellow flesh freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; and being further characterized by a partially showy blossom when in full bloom; and a fruit of substantially spheroidal shape having a firm flesh, and a red skin color cover over 80% of the fruit at maturity which occurs about 4 days after maturity of the Redhaven peach.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8950 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.