US Plant Patent PP4683
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 14, 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
- PP4683
- Filed
- December 14, 1979
- Granted
- April 7, 1981
- Expires
- December 14, 1999
- Inventor
- SMITH EARL; WIMER ALBA E
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
Herein described is an almond tree which exhibits heavy clusters of almonds on a tree having sturdy branches and producing a sweet tasting nut of excellent quality with a semi-soft shell and characterized by the fact that it blooms at about the same time as the Nonpareil (unpatented) and is harvested immediately after the Nonpareil.
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 almond tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of almond tree substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4683 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.