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US Plant Patent PP15192

Burnectfourteen

Nectarine tree, ‘Burnectfourteen’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 16, 2023. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15192, the photograph of Burnectfourteen printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15192, 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
PP15192
Filed
December 16, 2003
Granted
September 28, 2004
Expires
December 16, 2023
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica sub species nuciperisica ), denominated varietally as ‘Burnectfourteen’, and which produces an attractively colored white-fleshed, non-melting, sub-acid clingstone nectarine, which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 15 to May 24 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.

Having thus described and illustrated our new variety nectarine tree, what we claim is new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 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, white-fleshed, non-melting, sub-acid clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 15 to May 24 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central Calif.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15192 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.