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US Plant Patent PP9438

Autumn Flame

Peach tree `Autumn Flame`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 10, 2015. 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
PP9438
Filed
January 10, 1995
Granted
January 23, 1996
Expires
January 10, 2015
Inventor
DOYLE JAMES F

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree demoninated varietally as Autumn Flame and which is characterized as to novelty by a date of maturity for commercial harvesting and shipment of approximately September 4 through September 20 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

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 is new and claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, and which is somewhat similar in its harvesting date to the Carnival variety of peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,144) which matures in approximately the same season, and approximately a week later than the common commercial variety Fairtime (unpatented), but which is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty, by producing fruit which are ripe for harvesting and shipment approximately September 4 through September 20 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, the subject variety producing fruit which have an attractive exterior coloration, are freestone by nature, and further have a firm yellow-colored flesh.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9438 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.