Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP17141

Burnecteighteen

Nectarine tree, ‘Burnecteighteen’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 8, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 16, 2024. This patent earned 143 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17141, the photograph of Burnecteighteen printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17141, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP17141
Filed
December 16, 2004
Granted
October 10, 2006
Expires
May 8, 2025
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
GERDTS TIMOTHY J; SLAUGHTER JOHN K

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica , and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burnecteighteen’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone, sub-acid nectarine which is mature for harvesting approximately July 10 to July 22 under ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described, and which is characterized principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, freestone, sub-acid nectarine which is mature for harvesting approximately July 10 to July 22 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17141 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.