US Plant Patent PP4916
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 23, 2001. 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
- PP4916
- Filed
- February 23, 1981
- Granted
- November 2, 1982
- Expires
- February 23, 2001
- Assignee
- BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- WILSON WILLIAM J
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 designated "Clyde Wilson" having leaves of dark green upper surface, yellowish green under surface, flowers of pink color overall, fruit appearance of yellowish red with reddish areas, flesh which appears to be yellow overall, the cavity being reddish in general, a particularly valuable characteristic for commercial production being the fact that the ripening period in effect extends the season of the "Loring" (Unpatented) variety since the fruit is similar and sizes well when a heavy crop is produced.
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 of the yellow fleshed type, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of late ripening of a fruit quite similar to the "Loring" (Unpatented) variety, extending the season on the order of seven to fourteen days, the excellent sizing of the fruit even where the tree is carrying a heavy crop, the attractive fruit having overall yellowish red appearance with substantial areas of red, the flesh being of yellowish appearance overall, distinctly reddish cavity and further the ability to produce fruit on a comparable basis in widely spaced geographic areas.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4916 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.