US Plant Patent PP4739
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 30, 2000. 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
- PP4739
- Filed
- May 30, 1980
- Granted
- June 9, 1981
- Expires
- May 30, 2000
- Assignee
- JAMES LEONARD D, JAMES ULDINE S
- Inventor
- JAMES LEONARD D
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 open, medium size, vigorous, stocky of trunk and branches, both with smooth texture, upright with diverging branches, foliated with medium size, acuminate, acutely pointed, thin, smooth-textured leaves having a crenate, finely serrate margin and small, alternate, green, globose glands, blooms heavily with pink flowers, and is a regular and heavy bearer of large, well-sealed, well-distributed nuts having large kernels.
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, in comparison to the Ne Plus Ultra, by a tree of greater height, having open, strong, vigorous, upright growth and a diverging branch pattern; by heavy blooming, with pink flowers, about a week later; and by the regular and heavy bearing of large, well-sealed, more symmetrical nuts in harvest two to three weeks earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4739 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.