US Plant Patent PP4913
fruiting
Seedless fruiting mulberry
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 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
- PP4913
- Filed
- October 22, 1980
- Granted
- November 2, 1982
- Expires
- October 22, 2000
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- BEACH CARROLL
Abstract
A new variety of fruiting mulberry tree, having a dense small growth habit and producing large, tender, juicy fruits, almost black in color, and almost free of seeds; bears from June 1 to August 25 in southern California; and fruit develops on current season's growth.
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 fruiting mulberry tree, substantially as herein illustrated and described, said variety being characterized in the large size and flavorful quality of its fruits, which are substantially seedless and of a blackish color when ripe, said tree ripening over a notably longer time span than most mulberries under parallel conditions, said tree being additionally characterized in its relatively compact and small habit of growth.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4913 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.