US Plant Patent PP4980
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 13, 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
- PP4980
- Filed
- August 13, 1981
- Granted
- February 8, 1983
- Expires
- August 13, 2001
- Assignee
- H P METZLER & SONS INC
- Inventor
- CHAMBERLIN SR THOMAS O
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 with yellow flesh of very smooth and tight texture ripening very evenly throughout approximately six days after the unpatented Springcrest Peach Tree.
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 claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized by regular and good bearing of early ripening, medium size, semi-freestone, yellow-fleshed fruit having flesh of a very smooth and tight texture ripening quite evenly throughout the fruit in that the apex normally does not soften before the base of the fruit is ripe; and ripening about 6 days after the unpatented Springcrest peach tree.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4980 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.