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US Plant Patent PP25128

Burnecttwentyseven

Nectarine tree, ‘Burnecttwentyseven’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends June 11, 2033.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 26, 2032. This patent earned 167 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25128, the photograph of Burnecttwentyseven printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25128, 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
PP25128
Filed
December 26, 2012
Granted
December 2, 2014
Expires
June 11, 2033
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC, GERDTS TIMOTHY J, SLAUGHTER JOHN K
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, denominated varietally as ‘Burnecttwentyseven’, and which produces an attractively colored white-fleshed, sub-acid freestone nectarine, which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 20 to 28 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 of 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, sub-acid freestone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately August 20 to August 28 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

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