US Plant Patent PP10480
Mandarin tangerine called Nadorcott
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 28, 2017. 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
- PP10480
- Filed
- January 28, 1997
- Granted
- July 7, 1998
- Expires
- January 28, 2017
- Assignee
- MAISTRE JEAN DE
- Inventor
- NADORI EL BACHIR
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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
A new variety of Mandarin Tangerine called `Nadorcott` is distinguished by its seedless fruit under self-pollination conditions. The fruit is easy peeling with a superior rind and juice color when compared to `Murcott.` The fruit has excellent aroma and flavor, ease of segment separation, tender segment skin and is mid-season maturing with a highly productive yield even for young trees.
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 Mandarin Tangerine tree having the characteristics described and illustrated herein.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10480 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.