US Plant Patent PP6471
Nectarine
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 9, 2006. 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
- PP6471
- Filed
- December 9, 1986
- Granted
- December 20, 1988
- Expires
- December 9, 2006
- Assignee
- ITO PACKING CO
- Inventor
- TAYLOR JAMES W
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
A new and distinct variety of nectarine distinguished by its yellow fleshed fruit and deep red coloring which, together with its round shape, depressed apex and firm flesh make the fruit particularly resistant to bruising.
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 variety of nectarine tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree with fruit of the yellow fleshed cling type, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly as to the novelty of the deep red coloring of the fruit with a very waxy surface that produces a brilliant deep red color at commercial harvest time, with good sugar content and well balanced acid content resulting in an excellent flavor, and further having a round shape and depressed apex along with very firm flesh making the fruit particularly resistant to bruising; furthermore, the round shape and depressed apex along with the very firm flesh make the fruit very resistant to bruising.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6471 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.