US Plant Patent PP8864
Melrose
Melrose plum tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 4, 2013. 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
- PP8864
- Filed
- November 4, 1993
- Granted
- August 16, 1994
- Expires
- November 4, 2013
- Assignee
- KAMADA DAVID K
- Inventor
- KAMADA LEONARD M; SANCHEZ IGNACIO
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Black Beaut" plum tree in that it produces fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately simultaneously with the fruit of the "Beaut" plum tree, but from which it is distinguished by having a greater regularity of bearing, due to the production of pollen, and wherein the fruit has a more uniformly dark purple skin coloration, a more balanced flavor and a smaller pit without a tendency to fragment.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated our new variety of plum tree, what we 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 which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Black Beaut" plum tree, in that it produces fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately June 1 to June 5 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, or approximately simultaneously with the fruit of the "Black Beaut" plum tree, but which are distinguished therefrom in that, among other characteristics, the fruit has a more uniformly dark purple skin coloration and a more balanced flavor while having a greater regularity of bearing.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8864 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.