US Plant Patent PP5650
Ray's Hope
Plum tree "Ray's Hope"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 2, 2004. 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
- PP5650
- Filed
- February 2, 1984
- Granted
- January 28, 1986
- Expires
- February 2, 2004
- Inventor
- CASSELMAN ARTHUR R; CASSELMAN LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE
Abstract
A plum tree broadly characterized by its general resemblance to the Casselman Plum Tree in its regular and productive bearing of medium-sized fruit having firm flesh but which ripens four to five weeks after that of the Casselman Plum Tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having described my new variety of plum tree, what I claim as new is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described, broadly characterized by its general similarity to the unpatented Casselman Plum Tree, which it most nearly resembles and of which it is believed to be a sport but from which it is distinguished as to novelty by its fruit ripening four to five weeks later than that of the Casselman Plum Tree.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5650 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.