US Plant Patent PP14454
Burpeachfifteen
Peach tree named ‘Burpeachfifteen’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 7, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 9, 2022. This patent earned 29 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP14454
- Filed
- December 9, 2002
- Granted
- January 13, 2004
- Expires
- January 7, 2023
- Assignee
- BURCHELL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- GERDTS TIMOTHY J; SLAUGHTER JOHN K
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree ( Prunus persica ), and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burpeachfifteen’, and which further produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, freestone peach which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 28 to September 8 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.
Having thus described and illustrated our new variety peach tree, what we claim is new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 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, freestone peach which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 28 to September 8 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.
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