US Plant Patent PP9594
Pretty Lady
"Pretty Lady" peach tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 25, 2015. 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
- PP9594
- Filed
- January 25, 1995
- Granted
- June 25, 1996
- Expires
- January 25, 2015
- Inventor
- BUHLER JOHN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Summer Lady" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,865) of which it is a sport, but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 5 to August 20 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California which is of an excellent quality having an exceptional sweet flavor, and a firm flesh.
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 peach tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of peach tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Summer Lady" peach tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,865) of which it is a sport, but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately August 5 to August 20 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and which have an excellent sweet flavor and firm flesh.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9594 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.