US Plant Patent PP21378
KV00398
Peach tree named ‘KV00398’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends December 9, 2028.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

The record
- Patent number
- PP21378
- Filed
- December 9, 2008
- Granted
- October 12, 2010
- Expires
- December 9, 2028
- Assignee
- US OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED B
- Inventor
- SCORZA RALPH; OKIE WILLIAM R
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach which is characterized by producing large, yellow, melting-flesh fruit with an excellent sweet, only mildly acidic dessert quality flavor. Fruit are melting flesh freestone with an 80% red over-color (blush) over a golden yellow undercolor and average 71 to 75 mm in diameter, ripening in early mid season.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree producing fruit substantially as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP21378 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.