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US Plant Patent PP17018

Burnectwenty

Nectarine tree, ‘Burnectwenty’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 20, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 16, 2024. This patent earned 94 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17018, the photograph of Burnectwenty printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17018, 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
PP17018
Filed
December 16, 2004
Granted
August 22, 2006
Expires
March 20, 2025
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
GERDTS TIMOTHY J; SLAUGHTER JOHN K

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree Prunus persica , and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burnectwenty’, and which produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone, nectarine which is mature for harvesting approximately September 13 to September 23 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, freestone, nectarine which is mature for harvesting approximately September 13 to September 23 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17018 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.