US Plant Patent PP4274
Pomegranate tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 2, 1997. 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
- PP4274
- Filed
- May 2, 1977
- Granted
- July 4, 1978
- Expires
- May 2, 1997
- Inventor
- SLAYMAN M DWIGHT
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 pomegranate tree of a new and distinct variety, with about a 10 day shorter period between the appearance of blossoms and the ripening of the fruit than is the case with the "Wonderful" variety. The fruit has a more pleasing shade of red than the "Granada", and the pulp has a slightly less acid taste than the "Wonderful".
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having herein described and illustrated my new variety of pomegranate tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of pomegranate tree substantially as described and illustrated, said tree resembling the Wonderful (unpatented) pomegranate tree in appearance and blossoms, but being distinguished therefrom by its regular bearing of fruit which ripens about 10 days earlier than that of the Wonderful variety, is of a more pleasing cherry red color and is slightly less tart in flavor.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4274 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.