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US Plant Patent PP6153

Ebony Sun

Plum tree, "Ebony Sun"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 17, 2006. 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
PP6153
Filed
April 17, 1986
Granted
April 19, 1988
Expires
April 17, 2006
Inventor
CHAMBERLIN SR THOMAS O

Abstract

A plum tree broadly characterized by producing fruit which has a Black skin color and firm, Deep Orange Yellow colored flesh and whose harvesting date is September 6 through September 10 at Del Rey, Calif.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

Having described my new variety of plum tree, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described broadly characterized as to novelty by its maturity date which is approximately September 6 through September 10 under the ecological conditions prevailing at Del Rey, Calif., and by its producing fruit having a skin color that is Black, whose flesh is Deep Orange Yellow throughout and which has excellent handling and storage characteristics.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6153 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.