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US Plant Patent PP24140

Burnecttwentyfive

Nectarine tree, ‘Burnecttwentyfive’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends April 9, 2032.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 19, 2031. This patent earned 112 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP24140, the photograph of Burnecttwentyfive printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP24140, 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
PP24140
Filed
December 19, 2011
Granted
January 7, 2014
Expires
April 9, 2032
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica sub species nuciperisica ), denominated varietally as ‘Burnecttwentyfive’, and which produces an attractively colored firm-fleshed, acid, clingstone nectarine, which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately July 14 to July 21 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, firm-fleshed, acid, clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately July 14 to July 21 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

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