US Plant Patent PP7432
Peach tree (Rich May)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 2010. 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
- PP7432
- Filed
- January 8, 1990
- Granted
- January 29, 1991
- Expires
- January 8, 2010
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 new and distinct variety of peach tree; its novelty consisting of the following unique combination of desirable features. 1. Early maturity of fruit. 2. Producing large size, yellow flesh fruit. 3. Heavy and regular production. 4. The ability of the fruit to stay firm 4-5 days after maturity. 5. Vigorous upright growth habit. 6. Producing firm fruit with good handling and shipping 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 as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous upright growth and a regular and productive bearer of large size early maturing, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good eating, shipping and storage quality; the fruit is further characterized in comparison to the variety May Crest Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,064) as maturing 4 to 5 days earlier with heavier production of larger size fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7432 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.