US Plant Patent PP4845
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 19, 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
- PP4845
- Filed
- June 19, 1980
- Granted
- May 11, 1982
- Expires
- June 19, 2000
- Inventor
- NARAGHI HASHEM
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 large, open, vigorous, spreading, abundantly foliated with large, lanceolate leaves having a finely serrate margin, blooms heavily and prolonged with white pink-centered flowers, and a regular bearer with very heavy production of large, well-distributed nuts having a large 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, having general resemblance to the Nonpareil, but distinctively characterized by a prolonged blooming period spanning as much as three weeks; by being an effective pollenizer for the Nonpareil; and by productivity substantially greater than the Nonpareil.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4845 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.