US Plant Patent PP7443
Suplumeighteen
Plum cv. Suplumeighteen
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 12, 2008. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 22, 2010, but this patent ends 710 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP7443
- Filed
- January 22, 1990
- Granted
- February 12, 1991
- Expires
- February 12, 2008
Abstract
A plum tree characterized by its unusually large, early ripening fresh quality, red-purple fruit which are round and slightly oblate in shape with prominent lenticels. Trees of the variety are of medium size and bear fruit regularly.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new variety of plum tree, the variety being particularly distinguished and characterized by its early-ripening fresh quality fruit of unusually large size, round and slightly oblate in shape, having prominent lenticels, and red-purple skin color at maturity, substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7443 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.