US Plant Patent PP4661
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 11, 2000. 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
- PP4661
- Filed
- January 11, 1980
- Granted
- March 3, 1981
- Expires
- January 11, 2000
- Inventor
- MERRILL GRANT; MERRILL EXECUTRIX LUCILE B
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 large, vigorous, spreading, foliated with large, oval-lanceolate leaves having a coarsely serrate margin, medium length petiole, and medium size, uniform glands positioned in opposition, blooms from large, obtuse to conic, plump, pubescent flower buds, the flowers being pink and of medium size, and a regular and productive bearer of uniform, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin blushed and mottled with red, yellow flesh, and a medium size, beige stone.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is particularly characterized by general similarity, in tree and fruit, to the Springcrest but ripening of the fruit is approximately five to six days later.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4661 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.