US Plant Patent PP4644
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 9, 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
- PP4644
- Filed
- October 9, 1979
- Granted
- February 10, 1981
- Expires
- October 9, 1999
- Assignee
- RICHLAND SALES CO
- Inventor
- MAGNUSON DARRYL P
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 which is of medium size, medium vigor, spreading, dense, vase-formed, hardy, foliated with medium size, oval-lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves, blooms with large, pink flowers, and is a regular and very productive bearer of medium-large size, globose, freestone fruit having apricot skin substantially overspread with dark red, and yellow flesh with red streaked and mottled into the flesh from the pit cavity.
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, substantially as illustrated and described, which is generally similar, in tree and fruit, to the O'Henry variety, but distinctively characterized by a ripening period approximately ten days later.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4644 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.