US Plant Patent PP4571
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 22, 1999. 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
- PP4571
- Filed
- January 22, 1979
- Granted
- July 15, 1980
- Expires
- January 22, 1999
- 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 variety of peach tree which is medium to large size, vigorous, medium dense and upright in growth; the tree being a regular and productive bearer of large size, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with yellow skin substantially overspread with red; the fruit is further characterized by excellent eating quality and ability to ship to long distance markets.
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, characterized by its regular and productive bearing of large size, yellow flesh, firm, freestone fruit, with excellent eating and shipping quality and is further characterized -- by having attractive red skin color, uniform ripening and maturing two weeks before O'Henry Peach (U.S. Plant. Pat. No. 2,964).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4571 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.