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US Plant Patent PP15496

Calara

Peach Tree named ‘Calara’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 30, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 25, 2023. This patent earned 5 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15496, the photograph of Calara printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15496, 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
PP15496
Filed
November 25, 2003
Granted
January 25, 2005
Expires
November 30, 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 ‘Calara’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone peach which is mature for harvesting approximately October 1 to October 12 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.

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 October 1 to October 12 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15496 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.