US Plant Patent PP5413
Mr. Paul
Plum tree `Mr. Paul`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 11, 2003. 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
- PP5413
- Filed
- February 11, 1983
- Granted
- March 12, 1985
- Expires
- February 11, 2003
- Inventor
- PAUL RONALD
Abstract
Disclosed is a new and distinct plum tree (Mr. Paul) broadly characterized by a large, vigorous, productive and regular bearing tree, late ripening fruit which is ready for first picking the third week of July, nearly one month later than the parent plant, Queen Rosa (unpatented), which it most nearly resembles, and of good keeping and shipping quality and mild, very pleasant, sweet flavor. This plant bears the cultivar name `Mr. Paul`.
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 is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree having the cultivar name `Mr. Paul` substantially as described and illustrated, which is characterized by a vigorous, regular bearing tree and fruit of mild, sweet, pleasant flavor, which most nearly resembles its parent plant Queen Rosa (unpatented) but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by ripening in late July, approximately a month later than Queen Rosa, and by a more attractive skin coloration, being darker color overall and having a band of purple coloration along the suture at full maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5413 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.