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US Plant Patent PP17637

Constanza

Plum tree named ‘Constanza’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 19, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 11, 2025. This patent earned 39 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17637, the photograph of Constanza printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17637, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17637
Filed
August 11, 2005
Granted
April 24, 2007
Expires
September 19, 2025
Assignee
HUIDOBRO JOSE DOMINGO GODOY
Inventor
HUIDOBRO JOSE DOMINGO GODOY

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of plum tree “ Prunus salicina ” and which has been denominated as “Constanza,” and which further produces an attractively colored plum which is mature for harvesting and shipment about March 20 th to April 10 th under the ecological conditions prevailing in the Maipo Valley, near Santiago, Chile.

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, and which is characterized principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored plum which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately March 20 th to April 10 th under the ecological conditions in the Maipo Valley, near Santiago, Chile.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17637 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.