US Plant Patent PP4861
Peach tree (7-7-52)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 20, 2000. 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
- PP4861
- Filed
- October 20, 1980
- Granted
- June 29, 1982
- Expires
- October 20, 2000
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- DAVIS LUTHER D; BROOKS EXECUTOR BY DONALD R
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 peach tree which is medium size, vigorous, hardy, upright-spreading, foliated with medium size, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate leaves having a finely crenate margin, medium length petiole, and reniform glands; blooms from hardy, medium size, pointed flower buds free from the stem and moderately pubescent, the flowers being medium size, non-showy, and deep rose pink shading lighter at base; and is a regular and highly productive bearer of large, uniform, globose, clingstone fruit having orange buff skin with a red blush, and firm, highly flavored, orange buff flesh.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which regularly and with high productivity bears large, uniform, globose, clingstone fruit having firm, highly flavored flesh; the fruit, which ripens approximately with the Carolyn and is similar in shape, is particularly distinctive, in comparison, by not dropping fruit before harvest, by less blush on the skin, by a stone which is eroded near the apex of the dorsal side, and by leaf glands which are reniform and not globose as are those of the Carolyn.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4861 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.