US Plant Patent PP6007
Summer Sun
Peach tree, Summer Sun
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 16, 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
- PP6007
- Filed
- October 16, 1985
- Granted
- September 8, 1987
- Expires
- October 16, 2005
- Assignee
- H P METZLER & SONS INC
- Inventor
- CHAMBERLIN SR THOMAS O
Abstract
A new and distinct peach tree denominated varietally as "Summer Sun", generally resembling the June Lady Peach Tree (unpatented), but bearing a freestone fruit having a yellow, firm, and crisp flesh, and which is mature for harvesting approximately 15 through 20 June, later than that of the June Lady Peach Tree.
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 I claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its bearing freestone fruit having a yellow flesh and by its general resemblance to the June Lady Peach Tree (unpatented), but from which it is distinguished by its bearing of fruit which mature for harvesting approximately 15 through 20 June, later than that of the June Lady Peach Tree, and having a flesh which is firm and crisp with a skin which is tenacious to flesh.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6007 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.