Dwarf nectarine tree

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 19, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 25, 1996, but this patent ends 768 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

The record

Patent number

PP4078

Filed

August 25, 1976

Granted

July 19, 1977

Expires

July 19, 1994

Assignee

STRIBLING 3 S NURSERIES INC

Inventor

ANDERSON FREDERIC W

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.

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

A genetically dwarf nectarine tree which is of comparatively medium size, medium vigor, spreading, dense, foliated with large to medium size, lanceolate leaves having a crenate margin, flowering mid-season with large flowers, and a productive and regular bearer of early ripening, medium size, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and yellow flesh.

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 genetically dwarf nectarine tree, substantially as shown and described, which is of comparatively medium size, medium vigor, spreading, dense, foliated with large to medium size, lanceolate leaves having a crenate margin, flowering mid-season with large flowers, and a productive and regular bearer of early ripening, medium size, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and yellow flesh; the variety being characterized by fruit which ripens about two weeks earlier than the Golden Prolific nectarine, and which fruit has a red exterior color brighter than said Golden Prolific nectarine and resembling the May Grand nectarine in such respect.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4078 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.