Peach tree — plant patent PP16179

Peach tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 14, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 12, 2024. This patent earned 186 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16179, the photograph of Peach tree printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16179, 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

PP16179

Filed

May 12, 2004

Granted

January 3, 2006

Expires

November 14, 2024

Assignee

GARDNER LEITH MARIE, ZAIGER GARY NEIL, ZAIGER GRANT GENE

Inventor

ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.

Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of peach tree ( Prunus persica ). The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Fruit with an attractive orange-red skin color. 2. Producing fruit ripening in the early maturity season. 3. Producing peento shaped fruit (saucer, donut or flat shape). 4. Fruit with firm, white flesh, good flavor and eating quality. 5. Having a moderate winter chilling requirement of approximately 500 hours. 6. Vigorous, upright growth habit.

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 peento peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth and being a productive bearer of medium size, firm, white flesh, peento fruit with very good flavor and eating quality; the tree is further characterized by having a moderate winter chilling requirement of approximately 500 hours at or below 45° F., being hardy in all stone fruit growing areas of California with fruit ripening in the early maturing season.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16179 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.