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US Plant Patent PP15825

Burnectsixteen

Nectarine tree, ‘Burnectsixteen’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 3, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 23, 2023. This patent earned 42 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15825, the photograph of Burnectsixteen printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15825, 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
PP15825
Filed
December 23, 2003
Granted
July 5, 2005
Expires
February 3, 2024
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 ‘Burnectsixteen’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 27 to June 4 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, sub-acidic, clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 27 to June 4 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15825 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.