US Plant Patent PP4885
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 22, 2001. 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
- PP4885
- Filed
- January 22, 1981
- Granted
- September 7, 1982
- Expires
- January 22, 2001
- Assignee
- VALENTA THOMAS FRANCIS
- Inventor
- VALENTA FRANK E
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, spreading, dense, and vigorous; abundantly foliated with small, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a finely serrate margin, and small, green, alternate, globose glands; blooms white and very heavily; and is a regular and very heavy bearer of small, well-sealed nuts having medium size, sweet kernels of very 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, particularly characterized by a blooming period approximately two weeks earlier than the Thompson and about two days after the Nonpareil, and by a harvest period after the Thompson and Nonpareil and approximately with the Merced.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4885 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.