US Plant Patent PP5343
Suplumthirteen
Plum tree, Suplumthirteen
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 10, 2003. 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
- PP5343
- Filed
- February 10, 1983
- Granted
- November 20, 1984
- Expires
- February 10, 2003
- Assignee
- SUPERIOR FARMING CO
- Inventor
- WEINBERGER JOHN H
Abstract
A plum tree bearing fruit which ripens about one week after the Santa Rosa variety (unpatented) and about one week before the El Dorado variety (unpatented), the fruit of the new variety being globose, having a substantially black and uniform skin coloration, and having flesh of a uniform cream coloration.
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, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree as described and illustrated, characterized by bearing clingstone fruit of relatively consistently large size and uniformly symmetrical shape and characterized as to novelty by bearing fruit which ripens about one week later than fruit of the Santa Rosa variety of plum tree (unpatented) and about one week before fruit of the El Dorado variety of plum tree (unpatented) and being further characterized as to novelty by bearing fruit during such period which has skin of a uniformly substantially black coloration, and which has flesh of a uniformly substantially cream coloration.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5343 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.