US Plant Patent PP4163
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 13, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 12, 1996, but this patent ends 669 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4163
- Filed
- October 12, 1976
- Granted
- December 13, 1977
- Expires
- December 13, 1994
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS FLOYD
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree characterized by its dwarf size, heavy attractive foliage, large showy pink flowers and a regular bearer of medium to large, semi-freestone peaches of good eating quality. The variety being adapted for growing as an ornamental tree and also for the production of fruit for the home and local market.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree as illustrated and described by its dwarf size, having close leaf nodes with attractive foliage, large showy flowers and is further characterized by a productive and regular bearer of medium to large, semi-freestone fruit of good eating quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4163 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.