US Plant Patent PP20833
August Majesty
Plum tree named ‘August Majesty’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends December 15, 2028.
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
- PP20833
- Filed
- December 15, 2008
- Granted
- March 16, 2010
- Expires
- December 15, 2028
- Assignee
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to a plum tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, and moderately productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from a plum that blooms during the mid to late season. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during mid August, with first picking on Aug. 14, 2008. The fruit is uniformly large in size, dark purplish red in skin color, freestone in type, globose in shape, light greenish yellow in flesh color, firm in texture, and sweet in flavor.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is similar to ‘August Yummy’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 14,247) plum by being self-unfruitful and by producing fruit that is sweet in flavor, firm in texture, dark red in color, and that ripens in mid August, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is almost purely globose instead of oblate in shape, that is freestone instead of clingstone, that is somewhat larger in size, and that is not as prone to yellow or green areas on the shoulders where sun protected.
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