US Plant Patent PP5744
Mid Red
Plum tree ("Mid Red")
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 16, 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
- PP5744
- Filed
- November 16, 1984
- Granted
- May 13, 1986
- Expires
- November 16, 2004
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is of medium to large size, vigorous, upright in growth, and a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit having a high degree of red skin color. The fruit is further characterized by relative uniform ripening throughout the tree, holding firm on the tree for 7-10 days after picking ripe, having good eating, shipping and storage quality.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is a productive and regular bearer of large, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good eating, shipping and storage quality; the fruit is further characterized, in comparison to Casselman Plum (Non-patented) by ripening 7 to 10 days earlier, being larger in size and having a higher degree of red skin color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5744 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.