US Plant Patent PP4316
P-40
Plum tree (25-P-40)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 6, 1998. 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
- PP4316
- Filed
- January 6, 1978
- Granted
- October 17, 1978
- Expires
- January 6, 1998
- Assignee
- REEDLEY NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
Abstract
A plum tree which is medium size, medium vigorous, spreading in form, open in growth, foliated with medium size, obovate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin, medium length petiole, and alternate, globose glands, and a regular and productive bearer of medium size, uniform, symmetrical, globose, clingstone fruit having yellow skin partially overspread with red, and yellow flesh.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized--in comparison to the Cassellman and Rosemary--by a harvest about 2 weeks later, and by clingstone fruit having less exterior red color, but brighter yellow skin and flesh, and much sweeter flavor.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4316 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.