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US Plant Patent PP17258

Burpeachtwentytwo

Peach tree named ‘Burpeachtwentytwo’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 9, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 1, 2025. This patent earned 8 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17258, the photograph of Burpeachtwentytwo printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17258, 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
PP17258
Filed
December 1, 2005
Granted
December 5, 2006
Expires
December 9, 2025
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree ( Prunus persica ), which is denominated varietally as ‘Burpeachtwentytwo’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately April 28 to May 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.

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 and shipment approximately April 28 to May 5 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17258 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.