US Plant Patent PP6045
Peach tree (Sierra Lady)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 6, 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
- PP6045
- Filed
- December 6, 1985
- Granted
- October 27, 1987
- Expires
- December 6, 2005
- Inventor
- JOST MICHAEL D
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
The present variety of peach tree is a comparatively early ripening mutation of the O'Henry, and is characterized by a tree of medium to large size, medium vigor, and the regular and very productive bearing of highly colored, well-sized, fully freestone, fine textured fruit of very good flavor and superior eating quality; the fruit ripening substantially two weeks earlier than the O'Henry.
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 variety of peach tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is phenotypically very similar to the O'Henry, but distinctively characterized, in comparative fruit maturity, by ripening substantially two weeks earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6045 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.