US Plant Patent PP5003
Flowering plum tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 22, 2001. 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
- PP5003
- Filed
- June 22, 1981
- Granted
- March 22, 1983
- Expires
- June 22, 2001
- Inventor
- SCHMIDT III J FRANK
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
This invention relates to a novel variety of Cistena Plum tree, distinguished by its more vigorous growth rate and larger foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of flowering plum tree substantially herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its vigorous rate of growth and large foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5003 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.