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US Plant Patent PP17016

Burpeachtwentyone

Peach tree ‘Burpeachtwentyone’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 18, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 14, 2024. This patent earned 94 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17016, the photograph of Burpeachtwentyone printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17016, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17016
Filed
December 14, 2004
Granted
August 22, 2006
Expires
March 18, 2025
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
GERDTS TIMOTHY J; SLAUGHTER JOHN K

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree Prunus persica, which is denominated varietally as ‘Burpeachtwentyone’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting approximately July 5 to July 15 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.

1. A new distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, and which is characterized principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting approximately July 5 to July 15 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17016 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.