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US Plant Patent PP17890

Burnectwentythree

Nectarine tree ‘Burnectwentythree’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 4, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 19, 2025. This patent earned 16 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17890, the photograph of Burnectwentythree printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17890, 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
PP17890
Filed
December 19, 2005
Granted
July 31, 2007
Expires
January 4, 2026
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica sub species nuciperisica ), denominated varietally as ‘Burnectwentythree’, and which produces an attractively colored white-fleshed, non-melting, sub-acid, saucer-shaped, clingstone nectarine, which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately June 12 to June 20 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, white-fleshed, non-melting, sub-acid, saucer-shaped clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately June 12 to June 20 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17890 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.