US Plant Patent PP11149
Sir George
Plum tree named `Sir George`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 22, 2018. 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
- PP11149
- Filed
- April 22, 1998
- Granted
- December 7, 1999
- Expires
- April 22, 2018
- Inventor
- WUHL ERIC
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which has been denominated varietally as `Sir George` which is distinguished by producing uniformly large fruit of a semi-globular form, which has a distinct flavor and which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately the fourth week of July.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of plum tree, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described, and which produces uniformly large, semi-globular fruit, having a very firm flesh with a distinct sweet flavor, the fruit of the present variety being mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately the last week of July under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11149 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.