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US Plant Patent PP13881

Jayfree Plum

Plum tree named ‘Jayfree Plum’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 27, 2021. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP13881, the photograph of Jayfree Plum printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP13881, 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
PP13881
Filed
June 27, 2001
Granted
June 17, 2003
Expires
June 27, 2021
Assignee
CORNELL RES FOUNDATION INC
Inventor
WATSON JOHN P

Abstract

A new a distinct variety of prune plum tree, Prunus domestica, originating as a hybrid seedling of the cross: ‘Valor’ (non-patented)בIroquois’(non-patented). This new variety is unique from its parents and other prune plums because it is has a freestone, non-shattering stone and flesh which processes very well yielding highly colored, high quality plum products.

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

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of European-type plum tree, Prunus domestica, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized as to novelty by the unique combination of a free, non-shattering stone, highly colored processed plum products of excellent quality, yielded by a tree that is spreading in habit and precocious in bearing early, large crops of fruit which have acceptable fresh market size and good eating quality and shipping/handling attributes that meet grade standards for this fruit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP13881 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.