Editor’s note: This story has been updated to define farmgate royalties.

Washington State University has finalized a licensing agreement with International New-Varieties Network, or INN, to represent the WA 64 apple, and the two parties have established a royalty structure.

Royalties will cost $1.35 per tree and 3 cents per pound of fresh fruit sold, said Jeremy Tamsen, director of innovation and commercialization for the university’s College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences. Farmgate royalties — paid by growers who sell at farm markets, roadside stands or other venues outside licensed warehouses — are $2 per tree per year.

INN has hired Willow Intellectual Property Protection to manage propagation of the WA 64, WSU’s newest cultivar, Tamsen said.

Supply of WA 64 trees and budwood “should be ample,” Tamsen said. No grower drawing is planned. Interested growers can contact their nurseries to place orders, he said.

The apple still lacks a trade name, however. WSU is nearing the end of a process to name the apple, which included a statewide contest and focus groups, Tamsen said.

Like its predecessor, WA 38 — sold as Cosmic Crisp, WA 64 will be available exclusively to Washington growers within the United States.