US Plant Patent PP6671
Peach tree called Valley Red
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 9, 2007. 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
- PP6671
- Filed
- October 9, 1987
- Granted
- March 14, 1989
- Expires
- October 9, 2007
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 new and distinct dwarf peach cultivar suitable for commercial and/or home garden use. The variety has a unique origin and differs from selections `Valley Sun` and `Valley Gem` in that the fruit of this variety is slightly larger than `Valley Sun` and ripens much earlier than the fruit of selection `Valley Gem`.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of peach tree herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above and the parts thereof.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6671 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.