US Plant Patent PP5685
Pomegranate tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 29, 2003. 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
- PP5685
- Filed
- August 29, 1983
- Granted
- March 11, 1986
- Expires
- August 29, 2003
- Inventor
- KAMADA BENJAMIN Y
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
The present invention related to a pomegranate tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety thereof broadly characterized by its regular bearing of very early maturing, brightly colored, generally round, pomegranates having a low acidity and being tender with sweetly flavored seed arils and relatively thin rind which resists splitting. The instant pomegranate tree bears the cultivar name Early Red II.
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 pomegranate tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of pomegranate tree substantially as illustrated and described which is characterized by its bearing of early maturing fruit which ripens about one week to ten days earlier than the fruit of the patented pomegranate tree U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,723 commonly known as the Early Red. The new variety most nearly resembles said previously patented pomegranate tree U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,723 but is distinguished from it by its earlier ripening fruit and in some cases by fruit slightly smaller in size and having a more uniformly red skin.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5685 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.