US Plant Patent PP8238

Sweet Martin

Orange tree named `Sweet Martin`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 9, 2011. 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: PP8238
Filed: September 9, 1991
Granted: May 25, 1993
Expires: September 9, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of navel orange tree, having a maturity period in the early season, as much as two weeks before its parent Washington Navel, at which time both its color and soluble solids/acid ratios is superior to other early varieties, without loss of desirable eating qualities and having large fruit with thick skin, making it more durable, sweet tartness, firm texture and excellent flavor, all of which contributes to its desirablity for eating.

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 orange tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of navel orange tree, as described and illustrated, having no thorns, having a maturity period in the early season, both in color and soluable solids/acid ratios, and without loss of desirable eating qualities and having superior color, and having large fruit with thick skin, small, embedded navel ends, ease of segment separation, sweet tartness, firm texture and excellent flavor.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8238 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.