US Plant Patent PP5462
Island Delight
Nectarine tree, Island Delight
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 3, 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
- PP5462
- Filed
- October 3, 1983
- Granted
- May 7, 1985
- Expires
- October 3, 2003
- Inventor
- ASDOORIAN ALAN R; ASDOORIAN SOREN
Abstract
A nectarine tree, generally similar to the Firebrite Nectarine Tree (unpatented), which it most nearly resembles, bearing large, yellow-fleshed fruit which ripens eight to ten days earlier than that of the Firebrite.
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 is new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, broadly characterized by its bearing of large, yellow-fleshed fruit and by its general resemblance to the unpatented Firebrite Nectarine Tree, of which it is believed to be a mutant, but from which it is distinguished as to novelty by its fruit ripening approximately eight to ten days earlier than the fruit of the Firebrite variety, and by its fruit having a skin covered over approximately 60% to 80% of its surface by a blush color ranging from light red to garnet on a ground color of yellow.
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