US Plant Patent PP16461
Plumsweet IV
Interspecific tree named ‘Plumsweet IV’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 23, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 6, 2025. This patent earned 107 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP16461
- Filed
- January 6, 2005
- Granted
- April 18, 2006
- Expires
- April 23, 2025
- Assignee
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by large size, vigorous, hardy, and self-unfruitful but productive tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during mid September, with first picking on Sep. 15, 2003, and will hang on the tree for nearly twenty more days. The fruit is uniformly large in size, red over a greenish yellow background in skin color, clingstone in type, somewhat oblong in shape, yellow with some red bleeding in flesh color, very firm and crisp in texture, and outstanding in flavor.
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 interspecific Prunus tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to ‘YUMMYgiant’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,458) plum by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is large in size, oblong in shape, and clingstone in type, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is sweeter in flavor, that is firmer in texture, that matures about 45 days later, and that has a less percentage of red skin color with more yellow green background color present.
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