US Plant Patent PP5438
Nectarine tree - Early Diamond
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 1, 2003. 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.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5438
- Filed
- August 1, 1983
- Granted
- April 16, 1985
- Expires
- August 1, 2003
- Inventor
- BRADFORD NORMAN G
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large, vigorous, very productive, early blooming tree which regularly bears medium size, globose fruit with almost solid red skin which becomes almost maroon when fully ripe and yellow-gold flesh which ripens with the earliest commercial varieties and is of good eating quality and excellent firmness for shipping and long shelf life. The cultivar name of this nectarine tree is Early Diamond.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A very early fresh market nectarine distinguishable by its full red color, excellent firmness, excellent shelf life and shipping quality, and good eating, which ripens six to seven days before the parent plant Aurelio Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,755) and among earliest commercial varieties.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5438 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.