Re:The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014)
by EdwardMSmith on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @04:42PM
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The patent and the royalty on Honeycrisp expired in 2008.
Re:The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014)
by jdietrich on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @06:45PM
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The University of Michigan blundered by marketing the apple under the varietal name; varietals are considered inherently generic under trademark rules and so ineligible for protection.
A Pink Lady apple is actually a Cripps Pink, grown and picked in accordance with certain quality standards. Anyone can sell a Cripps Pink, but only licensees of Brandt's Fruit Trees Inc can sell a Pink Lady.
Re:The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (2014)
by menssen on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:10AM
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Alum here. Minnesota != Michigan. Boo.
Anecdotally, UMN has one of the best agriculture research programs in the world, and it's entirely based around figuring out how to grow really anything when first frost is early September (Minnesota).
- They're not hardy (trees need support, apples are thin skinned, and they ripen at different times)
- A university holds a patent on the tree (only $1 per tree, tho)