US Plant Patent PP7975
Noble
Plum tree (Red Noble)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 15, 2011. 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
- PP7975
- Filed
- April 15, 1991
- Granted
- September 15, 1992
- Expires
- April 15, 2011
Abstract
The present invention relates to a plum tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, and medium productive tree, which requires cross pollinization. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late May, with first picking on May 26th, 1990, and is uniformly medium in size, clingstone in type, deep red to purplish red in skin color, attractive in shape, deliciously sweet in flavor, and exceptionally firm in texture, resulting in excellent quality for keeping and shipping. The variety was developed as an open pollinated seedling of an unnamed seedling.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which most nearly resembles Red Beaut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,539) by being self-sterile and by producing fruit that is early in maturing and medium in size, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that is darker purplish red in color, that is clingstone rather than freestone in type, that is firmer in texture, and that is substantially better in flavor.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7975 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.