US Plant Patent PP4917
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 20, 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
- PP4917
- Filed
- April 20, 1981
- Granted
- November 2, 1982
- Expires
- April 20, 2001
- 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
This new and distinct variety of Peach tree which is of large size, vigorous upright growth, being a productive and regular bearer of medium to large, firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red. The fruit is further characterized by its early maturity, good eating quality, firm flesh and the 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.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by it's large size, vigorous and upright growth, a productive and regular bearer of medium to large, firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit, maturing six days after Royal Gold peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,663), but having firmer fruit, with heavier production; the fruit is further characterized by its high degree of attractive red skin color, its good eating quality and the high degree of firmness when mature provides for good shipping characteristics.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4917 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.