US Plant Patent PP10286
Brittney Lane
Peach tree "Brittney Lane"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 17, 2016. 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
- PP10286
- Filed
- December 17, 1996
- Granted
- March 17, 1998
- Expires
- December 17, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD; ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree (Prunus persica), its novelty consisting of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Early maturity of the fruit. 2. Fruit with large size, good flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 4. Producing firm fruit with good handling and shipping quality. 5. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 6. Having a relatively low winter chilling requirement of approximately 350 hours. 7. Vigorous, upright tree growth.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is of large size, vigorous, upright growth and a productive and regular bearer of large, yellow flesh clingstone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the tree is further characterized by producing fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality, having a low winter chilling requirement of approximately 350 hours and in comparison to the Desert Gold Peach (non-patented), the new variety has firmer flesh, greater handling and shipping quality, and a higher degree of attractive red skin color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10286 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.