US Plant Patent PP7003
Jefferson Sun
Peach tree, "Jefferson Sun"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 17, 2008. 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
- PP7003
- Filed
- October 17, 1988
- Granted
- August 29, 1989
- Expires
- October 17, 2008
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the Berenda Sun Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,297) with which it is most closely related but from which it is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately three to four weeks prior to the fruit produced by the Berenda Sun Peach Tree and which further produce a globose shaped fruit which is freestone by nature and which further exhibits a deep red to lighter yellow skin color and a light yellow colored flesh.
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 I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is somewhat remotely similar to the Berenda Sun Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,297) from which it was derived as a chance sport but from which it is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment during the last week of June through July 5 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and which further produces a freestone fruit which has a red and yellow skin color and a flesh color which is a pleasing light yellow, the fruit of the subject variety having noteworthy shipping and handling characteristics.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7003 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.