US Plant Patent PP9437
Liz's Late
Nectarine tree `Liz's Late`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 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
- PP9437
- Filed
- December 12, 1994
- Granted
- January 23, 1996
- Expires
- December 12, 2014
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F; ZAIGER GARY N; GARDNER LEITH M; ZAIGER GRANT G
Abstract
The present new and distinct variety of nectarine tree has the following unique combination of desirable features that are outstanding in a new variety: 1. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 2. Late maturity of freestone fruit. 3. Fruit with good flavor and eating quality. 4. Fruit with firm flesh, good storage and shipping quality. 5. Heavy and regular bearing of fruit. 6. Relatively uniform size fruit throughout the tree.
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 of large size, vigorous, upright in growth and a productive and regular bearer of large, firm, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with good flavor and eating quality; the fruit is further characterized by being nearly uniform in size throughout the tree, having good storage and shipping quality and, in comparison to August Glo Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,039), the new variety matures in the same maturity season but is freestone instead of clingstone.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9437 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.