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US Plant Patent PP14695

Bright Princess

Peach tree named ‘Bright Princess’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 21, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 21, 2022. This patent earned 151 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14695, the photograph of Bright Princess printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14695, 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
PP14695
Filed
November 21, 2002
Granted
April 13, 2004
Expires
April 21, 2023
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a peach tree, Prunus persica , and more particularly to a new and distinct variety characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in the latter part of June, with first picking on Jun. 22, 2002. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sweet and acidic in flavor, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Spring Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed peach as the selected pollen parent.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Diamond Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,066) peach by producing fruit that is yellow in flesh color, nearly full red in skin color, excellent in flavor, and freestone in type, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming about one week earlier and by producing fruit that is firmer in texture, larger in size, and matures about fifteen days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14695 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.