US Plant Patent PP4877
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 5, 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
- PP4877
- Filed
- December 5, 1980
- Granted
- August 17, 1982
- Expires
- December 5, 2000
- Assignee
- URLINE ADELE, URLINE FRED B
- 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 dense, large, vigorous, spreading in branching habit, abundantly foliated with medium size, lanceolate leaves having a finely serrate margin and alternate, globose glands, blooms heavy to very heavy with white flowers, and is a regular bearer, with heavy-to-medium productivity, of medium size, heart-shaped, non-gummy nuts having medium size, sweet-flavored 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 heart-shaped, non-gummy nuts having sweet-flavored kernels; and by blooming with the Nonpareil and Merced, and harvesting with the Merced.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4877 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.