US Plant Patent PP9331
Blue Gusto
Plum tree `Blue Gusto`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 30, 2014. 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
- PP9331
- Filed
- December 30, 1994
- Granted
- October 17, 1995
- Expires
- December 30, 2014
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety, of plum tree whose novelties consist of the following unique combination of features that are desirable in a new plum variety: 1. Late maturity of large size fruit. 2. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 3. Fruit with firm flesh, good handling and shipping quality. 4. Fruit with an attractive dark blue skin color. 5. Regular and heavy production of fruit. 6. Vigorous upright growth.
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, which is of large size, vigorous, upright in growth, and is a productive and regular bearer of large, late maturing, clingstone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh with good storage and shipping quality, holding firm on the tree for 2 weeks after maturity (firm ripe) and, in comparison to Casselman Plum (non-patented), is larger in size and does not have the skin cracking problems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9331 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.