US Plant Patent PP5231
Aleta Rose
Plum tree, "Aleta Rose"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 29, 2002. 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
- PP5231
- Filed
- October 29, 1982
- Granted
- May 15, 1984
- Expires
- October 29, 2002
- Inventor
- STROHMAIER LORETTA J; STROHMAIER PHILLIP D; STROHMAIER ALFRED W
Abstract
A plum tree generally similar to the Simka variety of plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,882) but distinguished by bearing fruit which ripens about ten days earlier and which has a 90 to 100 percent red-purple skin coloration.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated the new variety of plum tree, what is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by similarity in tree and fruit characteristics to the Simka variety of plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,882), but distinguished therefrom and characterized as to novelty by bearing fruit which ripens approximately ten days earlier than fruit of the Simka variety and which, when ripe, has a 90 percent to full red-purple skin coloration.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5231 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.