US Plant Patent PP4435
G-587
Nectarine tree (43-G-587)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 17, 1998. 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
- PP4435
- Filed
- August 17, 1978
- Granted
- July 10, 1979
- Expires
- August 17, 1998
- Assignee
- REEDLEY NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
Abstract
A nectarine which is large, vigorous, spreading, foliated with medium size, ovate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin and alternate, medium size, reniform glands, blooms mid-season with large, pink flowers, and is a regular and very productive bearer of early June ripening, medium size, uniform, 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 nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, particularly characterized by fruit having a ripening period between the Aurelio Grand and May Grand; the fruit being of a firmness which permits long distance shipping and provides a substantial shelf life.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4435 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.