US Plant Patent PP5074
AP-3
Plum tree (AP-3)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 18, 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
- PP5074
- Filed
- January 18, 1982
- Granted
- July 26, 1983
- Expires
- January 18, 2002
- Inventor
- PETERS ALVIN
Abstract
A plum tree which is large, vigorous, semi-spreading, dense, vase-formed, and hardy; foliated with medium size, oblanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a coarsely serrate margin, and medium size, opposite, green, globose glands; blooms from large, hardy, plump buds; the flowers, of medium season, being of medium size and white; and is a regular and productive bearer of medium size, uniform, symmetrical, globose, late-ripening, clingstone fruit having orange-yellow skin substantially 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, which -- while otherwise most similar to the Laroda in tree and fruit characteristics -- bears fruit which ripens about six to seven weeks later than the fruit of the Laroda.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5074 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.