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US Plant Patent PP14677

Spring Candy

Peach tree named ‘Spring Candy’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 14, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 21, 2022. This patent earned 144 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14677, the photograph of Spring Candy printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14677, 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
PP14677
Filed
November 21, 2002
Granted
April 6, 2004
Expires
April 14, 2023
Inventor
BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN

Abstract

The present invention relates to a peach tree, Prunus persica , and more particularly to a new and distinct variety characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the last week in June, with first picking on Jun. 25, 2002. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sub-acid and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, freestone in type, firm in texture, yellow with some red streaking in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Spring Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed peach as the selected pollen parent.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Diamond Princess’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,066) peach by producing fruit that is yellow in flesh color, nearly full red in skin color, and freestone in type, but is distinguished therefrom by blooming about ten days earlier and by producing fruit that is firmer in texture, larger in size, sub-acid instead of acid in flavor, and matures about twelve days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14677 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.