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US Plant Patent PP14627

TexKing

Peach tree named ‘TexKing’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 9, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 2, 2022. This patent earned 37 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14627, the photograph of TexKing printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14627, 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
PP14627
Filed
April 2, 2002
Granted
March 23, 2004
Expires
May 9, 2022
Assignee
TEXAS A & M UNIV SYS
Inventor
BYRNE DAVID; BACON TERRY

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Prunus persica is provided. The new peach tree variety produces an attractively colored, yellow fleshed, clingstone peach that matures early in the season (7-10 days after Flordaking) under the ecological conditions prevailing in the medium chill zone of south central Texas and is adapted in the medium chill region. The variety requires approximately 450 chilling units of dormancy.

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

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct peach tree as described and illustrated herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14627 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.