US Plant Patent PP16822
Persimmon tree denominated Doc's Delight
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 7, 2024. 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
- PP16822
- Filed
- June 7, 2004
- Granted
- July 18, 2006
- Expires
- June 7, 2024
- Assignee
- ARTHUR CARLSON FAMILY LTD PART
- Inventor
- CARLSON ARTHUR W
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of persimmon tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the Fuyu persimmon tree, but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately 10 days to 2 weeks prior to the fruit produced by the Fuyu persimmon tree and which is of larger size.
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 persimmon tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the Fuyu persimmon tree, but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately the first week of October, or about 10 days to 2 weeks earlier than the fruit of the Fuyu persimmon tree, in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California and which has high coloration, large size and a very good flavor.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16822 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.