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US Plant Patent PP16190

92-110-69

European plum tree named named ‘92-110-69’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 2, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 24, 2022. This patent earned 282 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16190, the photograph of 92-110-69 printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16190, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP16190
Filed
October 24, 2002
Granted
January 10, 2006
Expires
August 2, 2023
Inventor
BOURNE TIMOTHY F

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of European plum ( Prunus domestica ) is described herein. The new variety, which is self-fertile, ripens in mid-season with large, red-purple fruit and firm flesh, with a tendency to produce some double fruits. Ripened fruit attains a very high level of sugar and holds in cold storage very well.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of European Plum tree named ‘92-110-69’ as herein described and illustrated, and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16190 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.