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US Plant Patent PP15659

P.F. 24-C cold hardy

Peach tree named “P.F. 24-C cold hardy”

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 8, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 27, 2024. This patent earned 11 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15659, the photograph of P.F. 24-C cold hardy printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15659, 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
PP15659
Filed
April 27, 2004
Granted
March 15, 2005
Expires
May 8, 2024
Inventor
FRIDAY PAUL JAN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach, Prunus persica, tree having the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Producing a bud that is particularly winter and spring cold hardy. 2. The limbs of the tree naturally grow at wide angles creating a wide-spreading tree. 3. A fruit with a smooth raised suture that remains firm as does the whole fruit. 4. A late maturing, highly colored, peach cultivar that matures a few days before the old standard variety, “Cresthaven” (unpatented), and which hangs on the tree for many days, staying extremely firm.

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 as herein illustrated and described wherein the tree is a particularly cold hardy freestone peach maturing in the late season ripening a few days before ‘Cresthaven’ (non-patented) peach variety and producing large freestone highly colored and firm maturing fruit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15659 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.