US Plant Patent PP4508
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 19, 1998. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4508
- Filed
- December 19, 1978
- Granted
- March 4, 1980
- Expires
- December 19, 1998
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. 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 which is of large size, vigorous and upright in growth; the tree being a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit of high red skin color, with excellent eating and shipping quality in the late maturing season.
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 as described and illustrated, characterized by its large size, vigor, upright growth; and being a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with excellent eating and shipping quality; it is further characterized by having fruit that colors two to three weeks before maturity and having a more attractive red skin color than other late season varieties, ripening two weeks after O'Henry Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,964).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4508 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.