US Plant Patent PP6806
Nectarine
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 22, 2007. 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
- PP6806
- Filed
- December 22, 1987
- Granted
- May 16, 1989
- Expires
- December 22, 2007
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 tree characterized by a white fleshed, free stone fruit, which is both attractive in appearance and demonstrating good resistance to bruising and a reduced tendency toward browning around bruised areas, and, further, having the characteristic of maturing in the mid-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 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 white free stone type, substantially as herein shown and described, wherein the novelty is attributable to the bright red color over the cream base, creating an extremely attractive fruit with excellent eating quality and the highly aromatic characteristic of some white fleshed nectarines, further wherein the nearly round shape with the slightly depressed apex help to prevent bruising, the fruit demonstrating a reduced tendency to turn brown around slightly bruised areas providing great advantage in commercial handling of the fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6806 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.