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US Plant Patent PP14478

Burpeachseventeen

Peach tree named ‘Burpeachseventeen’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 27, 2023. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14478, the photograph of Burpeachseventeen printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14478, 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
PP14478
Filed
January 27, 2003
Granted
January 20, 2004
Expires
January 27, 2023
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree ( Prunus persica ), and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burpeachseventeen’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting approximately July 17 to July 25 under 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 of 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, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting approximately July 17 to July 25 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14478 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.