US Plant Patent PP7335
First Beaut
Plum tree, "First Beaut"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 11, 2009. 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
- PP7335
- Filed
- September 11, 1989
- Granted
- September 25, 1990
- Expires
- September 11, 2009
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree denominated varietally as First Beaut which is somewhat similar to the Red Beaut plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,539) with which it is most closely related, but which is distinguished therefrom and characterized principally as the novelty by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately May 15 through May 20 in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California, the subject variety maturing for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately five days earlier than the Red Beaut plum tree at the same geographical location.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of plum tree, what I claim is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree to be denominated varietally as First Beaut substantially as illustrated and described and which is characterized principally as to novelty by its production of fruit which are somewhat similar in their overall appearance and other physical characteristics to the fruit produced by the Red Beaut plum tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,539) from which it was derived as a chance mutation, but which is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit which are ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately five days earlier than the fruit produced by the Red Beaut plum tree.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7335 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.