US Plant Patent PP5663
July
Nectarine tree (July Red)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 18, 2004. 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
- PP5663
- Filed
- June 18, 1984
- Granted
- February 18, 1986
- Expires
- June 18, 2004
- Inventor
- BRADFORD NORMAN G
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large, vigorous, hardy, very productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit is a clingstone, and under the ecological conditions described, ripens about three days later than Red Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,060), and is firmer and larger. The fruit also has a bright, almost solid red skin color, an attractive globose form, and is of very good eating quality.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I Claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of clingstone nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which most closely resembles Red Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,060) nectarine but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon in that it produces very heavy crops of fruit that ripen three to five days later, is larger and firmer, has a globose form, and a sweet kernel.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5663 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.