US Plant Patent PP8234
Sommerfeld
"Sommerfeld" apple tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 10, 2012. 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
- PP8234
- Filed
- February 10, 1992
- Granted
- May 18, 1993
- Expires
- February 10, 2012
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of apple tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Royal Gala" apple tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,121) and "Fuji" apple tree (nonpatented) from which it is believed derived, but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately three-and-one half weeks later than the fruit produced by the "Royal Gala" apple tree and about five weeks prior to the fruit produced by the "Fuji" apple tree. The fruit of the new variety of apple tree is of excellent quality being of semi-blushed coloration, conical to slightly oblate shape and having a very sweet flavor.
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 apple tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of apple tree substantially as illustrated and described which is similar to the "Royal Gala" apple tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,121) and "Fuji" apple tree (unpatented) from which it is believed derived and with which it is most closely similar, but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately three-and-one half weeks later than the fruit of the "Royal Gala" apple tree and about five weeks prior to the fruit of the "Fuji" apple tree in the central valley of California and which is very sweet and of excellent quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8234 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.