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US Plant Patent PP7827

October Sun

`October Sun` plum tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 21, 2010. 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
PP7827
Filed
May 21, 1990
Granted
March 17, 1992
Expires
May 21, 2010

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of plum tree which produces fruit which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately September 20 to September 25 in the central San Joaquin Valley of Calif. which is very large for plum fruit, which is freestone by nature and which further exhibits a distinctive red and yellow coloration is very firm having very good storage and handling attributes.

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 which produces fruit which is mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately September 20 to September 25 in the San Joaquin Valley of central Calif. is of large size and very firm flesh with skin of a distinctive red-yellow coloration and which further has noteworthy shipping and handling characteristics.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7827 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.