US Plant Patent PP6047
Variety of navel orange tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 1, 2004. 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
- PP6047
- Filed
- April 13, 1983
- Granted
- December 1, 1987
- Expires
- December 1, 2004
- Inventor
- NIEUWOUDT HERMIAS C
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
A late ripening navel orange bearing fruit with a thin peel which is not prone to splitting.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A novel variety of navel orange tree substantially as shown and described, characterized by a firm, late-ripening fruit of slightly lighter than normal color with a thin peel which is not prone to splitting.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6047 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.