US Plant Patent PP5320
Almond tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 28, 2003. 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
- PP5320
- Filed
- February 28, 1983
- Granted
- November 6, 1984
- Expires
- February 28, 2003
- Inventor
- ALDRICH CLARENCE 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 of medium size and vigor, open, and upright branching habit; sparsely foliated with small, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a finely serrate margin and alternate, reniform glands; blooms heavily with white flowers; and is a regular and heavy producer of medium size, ovate, medium hard, thin shell nuts having small, ovate 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 heavy bloom before Mission but coincident with Nonpareil; and by the regular and heavy production of medium hard shell, well sealed nuts which hold well, knock easily, and have an extremely thin hull at green stage and a paper thin hull at harvest; the harvest being before Carmel and Mission, with Merced, and after Ne Plus.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5320 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.