US Plant Patent PP9860
Peach tree Super Rich
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 29, 2016. 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
- PP9860
- Filed
- January 29, 1996
- Granted
- April 15, 1997
- Expires
- January 29, 2016
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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
A new and distinct variety of peach, Prienus persica, its novelty consisting of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new variety: 1. Heavy and regular production of large size fruit. 2. Fruit ripening in the early maturity season. 3. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 4. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 5. Relatively uniform maturity of fruit throughout the tree. 6. An attractive fruit with a high degree of red skin color.
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 a regular and productive bearer of large, firm, early maturing, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having good handling and shipping quality, having a high degree of attractive red skin color and, in comparison to the variety May Crest Peach (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,064), the new variety has greater production of larger size fruit, maturing approximately 9 days earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9860 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.