US Plant Patent PP4651
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 18, 1999. 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
- PP4651
- Filed
- December 18, 1979
- Granted
- February 17, 1981
- Expires
- December 18, 1999
- Assignee
- HORTON CECIL V, HORTON DOROTHY
- Inventor
- HORTON CECIL V
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 dense, medium size, vigorous, stocky of trunk and branches, both with medium texture, spreading, abundantly foliated with large, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a finely serrate margin and green, globose, opposite-alternate glands, blooms heavily with pink flowers, and is a regular and very heavy bearer of small, ovate, well-sealed, well-distributed nuts.
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 by a vigorous tree having regular and heavy production of well-sealed nuts; and further characterized by blooming several days earlier than the Mission and interfertile with the Nonpareil, and by a harvest period approximately three weeks after the latter.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4651 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.