US Plant Patent PP9542
Arctic Sweet
Nectarine tree `Arctic Sweet`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 23, 2015. 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
- PP9542
- Filed
- March 23, 1995
- Granted
- May 7, 1996
- Expires
- March 23, 2015
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GARY N; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree with the following unique combination of desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular production. 2. Vigorous, upright growth. 3. Mild, sweet subacid fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 4. Fruit with firm flesh, good storage and shipping quality. 5. Fruit with a high degree of attractive red skin color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is of large size, vigorous upright growth and which is a productive and regular bearer of large, white flesh, clingstone fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by having firm flesh with good storage and shipping quality, having an attractive red skin color and in comparison to its pollen parent June Glo Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,228), has white flesh instead of yellow and is approximately 6 days later in maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9542 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.