US Plant Patent PP5296
Variety of apricot tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 15, 2002. 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
- PP5296
- Filed
- July 15, 1982
- Granted
- October 23, 1984
- Expires
- July 15, 2002
- Inventor
- HEMENWAY FREDERICK H
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
An apricot tree which bears early ripening, large, freestone fruit and which has a large spreading tree with dark green leaves having red globose glands and a lack of stipules.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of apricot tree substantially as described and illustrated which is characterized by large sized, early ripening, freestone fruit whose stones are not commensurate with the size of the fruit, and wherein the tree of said variety is large and spreading; the leaves of which are large, ovate, acutely pointed and dark green with red globose glands; further characterized by medium pointed buds that produce large white flowers slightly ahead of Royal.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5296 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.