US Plant Patent PP5821
Peach tree (White Lady)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 4, 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
- PP5821
- Filed
- February 4, 1985
- Granted
- December 9, 1986
- Expires
- February 4, 2005
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
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
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is of large size, medium dense, vigorous and upright in growth and a productive and regular bearer of large size, white flesh, freestone fruit having a high degree of red skin color. The fruit is further characterized by uniform ripening, coloring 7 to 10 days before maturity, very firm flesh and having more attractive red skin color than most white flesh peach varieties.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is of large size, vigorous, upright in growth and a regular and productive bearer of large, very firm, white flesh, freestone fruit with very good eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by coloring 7 to 10 days before maturity and having more attractive red skin color than most other white fleshed commercial varieties.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5821 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.