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US Plant Patent PP12509

Taylor 14L22

Nectarine plant named ‘Taylor 14L22’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 20, 2019. 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.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP12509, the photograph of Taylor 14L22 printed in the patent.
Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12509, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12509
Filed
December 20, 1999
Granted
April 2, 2002
Expires
December 20, 2019
Assignee
ITO PACKING CO
Inventor
TAYLOR JAMES W

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree with fruit of yellow fleshed cling stone type, maturing in the early part of the season and exhibiting good eating quality, bearing fruit of deeper red color, firmer flesh and larger size than other varieties of the same season.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

Having thus described and illustrated my new nectarine tree, what is new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct nectarine tree as herein described and illustrated, with fruit of yellow fleshed cling stone type, having a maturity period in the early part of the season with good eating quality, bearing fruit of deeper red color, firmer flesh and larger size than other varieties at this season.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12509 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.