US Plant Patent PP9529
Summer Zee
Peach tree `Summer Zee`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 3, 2015. 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
- PP9529
- Filed
- April 3, 1995
- Granted
- April 30, 1996
- Expires
- April 3, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
Our new development is a distinct variety of peach tree whose novelty consists of the following unique combination of features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit with firm flesh having good handling, storage and shipping quality. 2. Heavy and regular production. 3. Large size fruit throughout the tree. 4. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color. 5. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 6. Vigorous upright 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 by its large size, vigorous upright growth and by being a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having good handling and shipping quality, holding firm on the tree 7 to 8 days after maturity (shipping ripe), having an attractive red skin color and in comparison to its pollen parent `Zee Lady` Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,832), the new variety is approximately 4 weeks earlier in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9529 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.