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US Plant Patent PP18293

Burnectwentytwo

Nectarine tree, ‘Burnectwentytwo’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 13, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18293, the photograph of Burnectwentytwo printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18293, 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
PP18293
Filed
December 13, 2005
Granted
December 11, 2007
Expires
December 13, 2025
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 ‘Burnectwentytwo’, and which produces an attractively colored white-fleshed, non-melting, sub-acid clingstone nectarine, which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 25 to June 4 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 to producing an attractively colored, white-fleshed, non-melting, sub-acid clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 25 to June 4 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18293 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.