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US Plant Patent PP8103

Compact Friar

Plum tree named `Compact Friar`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 11, 2011. 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
PP8103
Filed
March 11, 1991
Granted
January 19, 1993
Expires
March 11, 2011

Abstract

A plum tree named Compact Friar similar to Friar plum, of which it is a mutation, but distinguished by dwarf size of the tree.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, identified by the characteristics enumerated above, and characterized particularly as to novelty in comparison to other plum trees by the genetically dwarf size of tree, but otherwise similar to the Friar plum tree from which it mutated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8103 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.