US Plant Patent PP5344
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 24, 2003. 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
- PP5344
- Filed
- February 24, 1983
- Granted
- November 20, 1984
- Expires
- February 24, 2003
- Assignee
- SUPERIOR FARMING CO
- Inventor
- SPADA ALDO; PALOMBI EMIDIO
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 ripening 13-16 days earlier than the parent variety, Springcrest.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree as a sport of the peach tree cv. Springcrest (unpatented) characterized in that it ripens 13 to 16 days earlier than the Springcrest peach and shows a more pronounced suture than that of the Springcrest peach.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5344 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.