US Plant Patent PP5624
Autumn Giant
Plum tree ("Autumn Giant")
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 19, 2004. 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
- PP5624
- Filed
- April 19, 1984
- Granted
- January 7, 1986
- Expires
- April 19, 2004
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is of large size, vigorous, medium dense, and upright in growth; foliated with medium size, mostly elliptical leaves having a crenate margin; blooms from plump, free buds of medium size and length; and is a regular and productive bearer of very large, firm, red-blushed, yellow-flesh, semi-freestone fruit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, particularly characterized by usually initiating the bearing of fruit in the second growing season; by blooming approximately nine days later than Santa Rosa; by a relatively late harvest and which is approximately with the Roysum; and by bearing of very large, firm, yellow-flesh, semi-freestone fruit larger than the Roysum and blushed with a higher degree of red skin color; the fruit, which is not susceptible to skin cracking or preharvest drop of immature fruit, being of good eating and long-distance shipping quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5624 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.