US Plant Patent PP8923
Nectarine tree (Kay Diamond)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 19, 2014. 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
- PP8923
- Filed
- January 19, 1994
- Granted
- October 4, 1994
- Expires
- January 19, 2014
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL G; 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 size, vigorous, hardy, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the third week in June, with first picking on Jun. 16, 1993. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, attractively globose in shape, freestone in type, very firm in texture, and full red in skin color. The variety was developed as a hybridized seedling from the selected seed parent of May Diamond Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,454), and an unnamed nectarine seedling as the selected pollen parent.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is similar to the Spring Bright Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) by producing fruit that matures in mid June, that is full red in skin color, that is very firm in texture, and that is flavorful in taste, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by by having reniform instead of globose glands, by having a higher chilling requirement, by having a small blossom instead of large, and by producing fruit that is freestone instead of clingstone.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8923 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.