US Plant Patent PP5474
Maid
Peach tree (June Maid)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 13, 2002. 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
- PP5474
- Filed
- December 13, 1982
- Granted
- May 21, 1985
- Expires
- December 13, 2002
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F
Abstract
A new variety of peach tree which is of large size, vigorous upright growth and a regular productive bearer of large size, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit that have a high degree of red skin color. The fruit is further characterized by its good eating quality and having firm flesh with the ability to ship to long distance markets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree as illustrated and described, which is large size, upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of firm yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good eating and shipping quality; the fruit is further characterized by having a high degree of attractive red skin color and ripening with Gemfree Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,409), but having more consistant production and fewer split pits.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5474 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.