US Plant Patent PP6044
Midnight Sun
Plum tree, Midnight Sun
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 27, 2005. 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
- PP6044
- Filed
- November 27, 1985
- Granted
- October 27, 1987
- Expires
- November 27, 2005
- Assignee
- H P METZLER & SONS INC
- Inventor
- CHAMBERLIN SR THOMAS O
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is characterized by bearing fruit which has a black skin color and nearly white flesh, the fruit having exceptional handling and cold storage characteristics.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described my new variety of plum tree, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described, which is characterized as to novelty by producing fruit which is mature for harvesting approximately Aug. 20 at Del Rey, Calif., and which further bears a large, black plum which is nearly round in shape, having a nearly white flesh which has a mild, noteworthy flavor and which further displays exceptional handling and cold storage characteristics.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6044 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.