P.F. 28-007 peach tree origin of variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 14, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 5, 2022. This patent earned 9 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14778, the photograph of P.F. 28-007 peach tree origin of variety printed in the patent.

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The record

Patent number

PP14778

Filed

March 5, 2002

Granted

May 11, 2004

Expires

March 14, 2022

Inventor

FRIDAY PAUL JAN

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 peach, Prunus persica, tree having the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. The new and distinct variety of peach tree is of average height and of upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of peaches. 2. Producing a very firm fruit having a resilient flesh texture. 3. Blossoms are non-showy when in full bloom. 4. A substantially oval spherical fruit with skin of dark red cover overlying a yellow which covers approximately twenty percent (20%) of its surface at maturity. 5. When harvested, the peduncle often remains affixed to the pit. 6. Late maturing fruit of good taste. 7. A late maturing fruit of good storage and shelf life.

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, as herein illustrated and described. 1. Medium size, medium vigor and upright in growth—a regular and productive bearer of very large size yellow flesh freestone fruit with good flavor and shipping quality and having a late season maturity date of about Sep. 12, 2001.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14778 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.