US Plant Patent PP8037
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`Showtime` plum tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 24, 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
- PP8037
- Filed
- June 24, 1991
- Granted
- November 24, 1992
- Expires
- June 24, 2011
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of plum tree which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Santa Rosa" plum tree (unpatented) from which it was derived, but from which it is distinguished by producing uniformly larger fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately the same time as that of the "Santa Rosa" plum tree but which exhibit a superior holding ability, as compared with that of the "Santa Rosa" plum tree and having a generally redder flesh 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 nectarine tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of plum tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is somewhat remotely similar to the "Santa Rosa" plum tree (unpatented) from which it was derived and with which it is most clearly similar, but from which it is distinguished and characterized principally as to novelty by producing uniformly larger fruit which have a generally redder flesh coloration and which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately June 18 to June 25 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California and which further has noteworthy holding, shipping and handling characteristics.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8037 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.