US Plant Patent PP5570
San Joaquin
Pear tree "San Joaquin"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 24, 2004. 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
- PP5570
- Filed
- February 24, 1984
- Granted
- October 8, 1985
- Expires
- February 24, 2004
- Inventor
- PETERSEN ROBERT E
Abstract
A pear tree, denominated "San Joaquin", having fruit ripening for picking about June 11 and to full maturity about June 20, at early maturity having deep green ground color with a brown-red blush in a partially solid, partially striped pattern, the ground color lightening to reach a bright yellow at full maturity and the blush a cherry red.
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 pear tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of pear tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized by its fruit being early ripening occurring for picking about June 11 and reaching full maturity about June 20, by the color of the fruit having about June 11 a deep green ground color and a brown-red blush extending in a partially solid, partially striped pattern over 30 to 60 percent of the skin surface and at full maturity the ground color lightening to bright yellow and the blush to cherry red.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5570 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.