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US Plant Patent PP4839

Spur-type

Spur-type Red Delicious Apple tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 9, 2000. 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
PP4839
Filed
May 9, 1980
Granted
April 20, 1982
Expires
May 9, 2000
Inventor
EVANS WILLIAM G; SNIPES DON R

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of spur-type Red Delicious tree with the productivity and growth characteristics of its parent Oregon Spur and with fruit and stem coloring with blush red formation nearest resembling the color of Early Red One, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,556, but approximately 15 days ahead of the initiation of coloration and ahead of the attainment of full coloration of Early Red One.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of spur-type Red Delicious tree, substantially as described and illustrated, with the productivity and growth characteristics of its parent Oregon Spur and with fruit and stem coloring with blush red formation nearest resembling the color of Early Red One, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,556, but approximately 15 days ahead of the initiation of coloration and ahead of the attainment of full coloration of Early Red One.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4839 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.