US Plant Patent PP10116
7-B
"7-B" plum tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 24, 2016. 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
- PP10116
- Filed
- January 24, 1996
- Granted
- November 11, 1997
- Expires
- January 24, 2016
- Inventor
- GERAWAN MICHAEL R
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree Prunus salicina, which is somewhat similar to the "Red Beaut" plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,539) in the production of fruit of similar size, shape, color and date of maturity, as well as in other respects, but from which it is distinguished in a number of respects including by producing abundant pollen which substantially enhances is ability to set a crop.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of plum tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described which produces very early maturing, medium sized fruit with bright purple-red skin coloration, mild flavor and very vigorous tree growth and which is sonewhat similar to the "Red Beaut" plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,539), from which it was derived, but from which it is distinguished in a number of respects including that it produces abundant pollen.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10116 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.