US Plant Patent PP5587
Mike's Grand
Nectarine tree, "Mike's Grand"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 1, 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
- PP5587
- Filed
- March 1, 1984
- Granted
- December 3, 1985
- Expires
- March 1, 2004
- Inventor
- PETERS RICHARD; WUHL ERIC
Abstract
A nectarine tree which very heavily and regularly bears fruit having yellow, semi-freestone flesh and red skin, and which ripens early in the season.
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 general similarity to the May Grand Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,794) in its early bearing of fruit having yellow flesh but from which it is distinguished as to novelty by its regular and very productive bearing of fruit having a more completely yellow flesh and a somewhat flatter appearance, ripening two or three days earlier than that of the May Grand variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5587 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.