US Plant Patent PP12021
Sprinter
Peach Tree ‘Sprinter’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 21, 2018. 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
- PP12021
- Filed
- December 21, 1998
- Granted
- July 31, 2001
- Expires
- December 21, 2018
- Inventor
- LIM JUNG-KYOUNG; YOU SOON-JA IM
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach Prunus persica tree with the following combination of unique features that are desirable in a new variety. 1. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Production of very firm, white flesh fruit with good handling and shipping quality. 3. Fruit that will stay firm on the tree 10 to 17 days after maturity (shipping ripe). 4. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 5. Middle season maturity of white flesh fruit. 6. Fruit having a skin with pink overspread with light yellow. 7. Vigorous half-open growth.
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, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized in that the tree is large, grows vigorously with a half open shape and is a regular and productive bearer of large, middle season maturing, white flesh, clingstone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized in that it has very firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality and it has a skin with pink overspread with light yellow.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12021 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.