US Plant Patent PP4814
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 28, 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
- PP4814
- Filed
- November 28, 1980
- Granted
- January 26, 1982
- Expires
- November 28, 2000
- Inventor
- URLINE FRED B
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 of medium size, dense, vigorous, upright with strong branches, abundantly foliated with medium size, lanceolate leaves having a finely serrate margin, and alternate, medium size, globose glands, blooms white and very heavily substantially with the Nonpareil, and is a regular and very heavy bearer of small, well-distributed nuts borne essentially in clusters on short spurs and in harvest after the Nonpareil but before the Mission, and the nuts having small 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 by a tree which resembles the Mission in shape but is larger; and by blooming substantially with and pollenizing the Nonpareil, but in harvest after the Nonpareil and before the Merced.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4814 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.