US Plant Patent PP7170

Ruby May

Peach tree, "Ruby May"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 20, 2008. 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: PP7170
Filed: October 20, 1988
Granted: February 27, 1990
Expires: October 20, 2008

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Peach Tree which is characterized as to novelty by a date of maturity approximately May 3 through May 10 under the ecological conditions prevailing at Orosi, Calif. in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.

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 somewhat similar to the Springcrest Peach Tree (unpatented) from which it was derived as a scaffold mutation, but from which it is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as to novelty by bearing fruit which are ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately May 3 through May 10 at Orosi, Calif., and which further produces a semi-freestone fruit which has a good flavor and noteworthy handling characteristics.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7170 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.