US Plant Patent PP4314
Nectarine tree (48-G-140)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 6, 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
- PP4314
- Filed
- January 6, 1978
- Granted
- October 10, 1978
- Expires
- January 6, 1998
- Assignee
- BURCHELL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 nectarine tree which is medium size, vigorous, upright to spreading, open, foliated with medium size, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin and alternate, reniform glands, blooms mid-season with large flowers, and is a regular and productive bearer of large to medium size, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and yellow flesh with red next to the stone.
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, characterized by fruit having general resemblance to the clingstone fruit of the Le Grand nectarine, but bearing freestone fruit, and ripening a few days later.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4314 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.