US Plant Patent PP5832
Peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 4, 2005. 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
- PP5832
- Filed
- February 4, 1985
- Granted
- December 16, 1986
- Expires
- February 4, 2005
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
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
Our new development relates to a distinct variety of peach tree. Its novelty consists of the following unique combination of features which are outstanding in a new variety: 1. The large size of the fruit. 2. The extreme firmness of the fruit and its good shipping and storage qualities. 3. Heavy and regular production. 4. Smooth round fruit contributing to ease of handling. 5. A high degree of attractive red skin color. 6. Excellent eating quality
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 which is of large size, vigorous, upright growth, and a productive and regular bearer of large size, yellow flesh, freestone fruit, maturing approximately 10 days before O'Henry Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,964); the fruit is further characterized by its high degree of red skin color, its excellent eating quality and a high degree of firmness when mature with very good shipping and storage quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5832 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.