US Plant Patent PP6763
Interspecific tree (Flavor Supreme)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 18, 2007. 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
- PP6763
- Filed
- December 18, 1987
- Granted
- April 25, 1989
- Expires
- December 18, 2007
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 new distinct variety relates to an interspecific (plum×plumcot) tree which has the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Production of fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 2. Firm flesh texture of fruit, intermediate between plum and apricot. 3. Fruit with high brix (soluble solids) average 17%. 4. Heavy and regular production. 5. Vigorous, semi-upright growth. 6. Good shipping and storage quality of fruit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of interspecific (plum×plumcot) tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, being vigorous, semi-upright in growth and being a regular and productive bearer of medium size, firm, red flesh, clingstone fruit, with excellent flavor and eating quality and the ability to ship to long distance markets.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6763 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.