US Plant Patent PP4466
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 30, 1998. 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
- PP4466
- Filed
- November 30, 1978
- Granted
- October 23, 1979
- Expires
- November 30, 1998
- Inventor
- NARAGHI HASHEM
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 large, dense, vigorous, robust, and extremely bushy with a stocky trunk, spreading with slender branches, abundantly foliated with large, ovate, acutely pointed, glossy leaves darker green than average, blooms heavily with white, pink-centered flowers, and is a regular and very heavy producer of large, medium brown, well distributed nuts having a large, medium brown kernel.
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, particularly characterized by a tree which is vigorous, robust, and extremely bushy; by time-retention of green leaf color--darker than average--beyond normal expectancy, and--in comparison to the Nonpareil--by heavier crops of nuts whose kernels are slightly lighter in color and of larger size.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4466 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.