Kenmore Plum

Kenmore Plum

Plum tree named ‘Kenmore Plum’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 30, 2021. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 26, 2021. This patent earned 4 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14020, the photograph of Kenmore Plum printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14020, 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.

Abstract

A new a distinct variety of prune plum tree, Prunus domestica, originating as a hybrid seedling of the cross: ‘Standard’(non-patented)×‘Stanley’(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. It is also more vigorous and pest tolerant than other commercial prune plum varieties grown at this time.

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 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, with above average tolerance for black knot disease of the wood, brown rot tolerance of the blossoms and fruit, and European red mite tolerance of the leaves, and possessing fresh market eating quality and shipping/handling attributes that meet grade standards for this fruit.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14020 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract