US Plant Patent PP27438
Burnectthirtyone
Nectarine tree, ‘Burnectthirtyone’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends September 16, 2035.
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
- PP27438
- Filed
- September 16, 2015
- Granted
- December 6, 2016
- Expires
- September 16, 2035
- Inventor
- GERDTS TIMOTHY J; SLAUGHTER JOHN K
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica sub species nuciperisica ), and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burnectthirtyone’, and which further produces an attractively colored firm-fleshed, low-acid, white clingstone nectarine, which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately July 21 to July 28 under ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.
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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, firm-fleshed, low-acid, white, clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately July 21 to July 28 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.
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