US Plant Patent PP4617
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 5, 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
- PP4617
- Filed
- July 5, 1979
- Granted
- January 6, 1981
- Expires
- July 5, 1999
- Inventor
- KEVORKIAN ARAM
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 peach tree, generally similar to the Redtop Peach Tree (unpatented), which bears freestone fruit having yellow flesh with red striations and which ripens from seven to ten days earlier than the Redtop and has more highly colored skin.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of peach tree, what is new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its bearing of freestone fruit having yellow flesh striated with red and by its general resemblance to the Redtop Peach Tree (unpatented), but which is distinguished therefrom by its fruit ripening from seven to ten days earlier and by having more highly colored skin.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4617 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.