US Plant Patent PP4852
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 24, 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
- PP4852
- Filed
- November 24, 1980
- Granted
- May 25, 1982
- Expires
- November 24, 2000
- Inventor
- MOSCHITTO THEODORE J
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, open, upright and sturdy, and vigorous; abundantly foliated with large, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate, finely serrate margin and small, alternate, globose glands; blooms heavily with white flowers; and is a regular, mid-season, and very heavy producer of large, well-distributed, light-colored nuts having a relatively thin shell and a medium size, sweet-flavored kernel of good quality.
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, which is upright and sturdy in growth, blooms after the Peerless and Nonpareil, the bloom being heavy and white, and is a regular and very productive bearer of large, light-colored nuts in harvest mid-season; the nuts having a shell thinner than the Peerless, and a sweet kernel of better flavor.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4852 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.