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US Plant Patent PP15694

Burnectseventeen

Nectarine tree ‘Burnectseventeen’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 23, 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 PP15694, the photograph of Burnectseventeen printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15694, 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
PP15694
Filed
December 23, 2003
Granted
March 22, 2005
Expires
December 23, 2023
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus nucipersica ), and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burnectseventeen’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting approximately August 7th to August 12 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, clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting approximately August 7 to August 12 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15694 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.