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US Plant Patent PP5223

Peach tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 21, 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
PP5223
Filed
December 21, 1981
Granted
April 24, 1984
Expires
December 21, 2001
Inventor
FRIDAY JAMES

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 invention relates to a new cultivar of peach tree which is highly colored, has uniform ripening, and is early bearing.

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 peach tree substantially as shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5223 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.