US Plant Patent PP9568
Murietta
Plum tree Murietta
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 1, 2015. 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
- PP9568
- Filed
- June 1, 1995
- Granted
- June 4, 1996
- Expires
- June 1, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
The present new and distinct variety of plum tree has the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 2. Fruit with good handling and shipping quality. 3. Heavy and regular production. 4. Vigorous upright growth. 5. Nearly uniform size of fruit throughout the tree. 6. The ability of the fruit to hold firm on the tree 8-10 days after maturity (shipping ripe).
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by large size, vigorous upright growth, being a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit with good flavor and eating quality and the ability to be shipped to long distance markets, and in comparison to Friar Plum (non-patented) the new variety is approximately 40 days earlier in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9568 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.