US Plant Patent PP9836
Matinee
"Matinee" plum tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 3, 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
- PP9836
- Filed
- January 3, 1996
- Granted
- March 25, 1997
- Expires
- January 3, 2016
- Inventor
- WUHL ERIC
Abstract
A new distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Santa Rosa" plum tree (unpatented), but from which it is distinguished by producing uniformly larger fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately one week earlier than the "Santa Rosa" plum tree and exhibits superior holding ability as compared with that of the "Santa Rosa" plum tree and having yellower flesh with red coloration just under the skin.
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, and which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Santa Rosa" plum tree (unpatented), but which it is distinguished by producing uniformly larger, more colorful fruit, having a very firm flesh with a sweet flavor, not being bitter near the pit, and which are mature for commercial harvesting approximately the first week of June in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9836 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.