US Plant Patent PP4927
Nectarine tree (83-50)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 8, 2001. 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
- PP4927
- Filed
- June 8, 1981
- Granted
- November 9, 1982
- Expires
- June 8, 2001
- Assignee
- SUPERIOR FARMING CO
- Inventor
- WEINBERGER JOHN H
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 nectarine tree which is of medium size and vigor, upright-spreading, dense, and round-topped; foliated with medium size, ovate, long-lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin, a petiole medium in length and thickness, and irregularly alternate, medium size, reniform glands positioned on the petiole and base of the blade; flowers from buds which are of medium size and length, plump, appressed, and pubescent; the flowers, of medium season, being large and pink; and is a regular and productive bearer of medium size, uniform, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, yellow flesh mottled with red next to the stone, and a tan 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 freestone fruit in harvest about three weeks earlier than the fruit of the Summer Grand and about with the fruit of the Early Sun Grand.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4927 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.