US Plant Patent PP4823
Plum tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 22, 2000. 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
- PP4823
- Filed
- September 22, 1980
- Granted
- February 9, 1982
- Expires
- September 22, 2000
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A plum tree which is medium size and spreading with medium size trunk and branches, the latter being of medium texture and green; foliated with medium size, obovate leaves having a crenate margin, medium length petiole, and small, alternate glands; blooms from buds medium in size and length; and is a regular and productive bearer of medium size, uniform, symmetrical, globose, clingstone fruit having deep purple skin and yellow flesh.
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, characterized, in comparison to the Red Beaut, by more consistent production of fruit, and which fruit is slightly larger in size and ripens about one week later.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4823 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.