US Plant Patent PP5139
July Sun
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 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
- PP5139
- Filed
- November 23, 1981
- Granted
- November 15, 1983
- Expires
- November 23, 2001
- Assignee
- H P METZLER & SONS INC
- Inventor
- CHAMBERLIN SR THOMAS O
Abstract
A peach tree, denominated "July Sun", of very vigorous growth producing very large freestone fruit having a bright red to a bright yellow coloration ripening after the July Lady Peach Tree about the twentieth of July.
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 quite vigorous growth producing freestone fruit of very large size, having a bright red to a bright yellow color, a tough skin, very firm flesh of bright yellow color having very good flavor and aroma and a pit cavity bounded by a very slight rim of red; and ripening about the twentieth of July.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5139 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.