US Plant Patent PP5377
Almond tree (Pearl)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 21, 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
- PP5377
- Filed
- July 21, 1983
- Granted
- December 25, 1984
- Expires
- July 21, 2003
- Inventor
- SCHMIDT ROBERT H
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
An almond tree which is medium size, dense, vigorous, and precocious; foliated with medium size, acuminate, abruptly pointed, thin, smooth leaves having a coarsely serrate margin, long slender petiole, and small, green, alternate, globose glands; blooms heavily with white flowers; and is a regular and heavy bearer of nuts borne in clusters on short spurs; the out-of-hull nuts being of medium size and well sealed, and the out-of-shell kernels being of medium size, ovate, and plump.
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 almond tree, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized in particular by early tree maturity, heavy blooming and being interfruitful with the Nonpareil, harvesting with the Thompson, Merced, and Ruby, and by heavy bearing of medium-size, well-sealed nuts having medium-size, ovate, plump kernels, and a medium to high percentage of kernel to nut.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5377 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.