US Plant Patent PP5609
Westerner
Plum tree, "Westerner"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 15, 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
- PP5609
- Filed
- February 15, 1984
- Granted
- December 24, 1985
- Expires
- February 15, 2004
- Inventor
- GARABEDIAN JOHN M
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat similar to the Laroda Plum Tree (unpatented), concurrently with which it bears fruit which is characteristically larger in size, deeper and fuller in external color and possesses a substantially greater amount of red coloration in its flesh.
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 is new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat similar to the Laroda Plum Tree (unpatented) with which it bears fruit which matures at substantially the same time but from which it is distinguished by bearing fruit of larger size, deeper and fuller external color, and a substantially greater amount of red color in its flesh.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5609 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.