US Plant Patent PP25863
Burnectthirty
Nectarine tree name ‘Burnectthirty’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends March 11, 2034.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 11, 2033. This patent earned 90 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP25863
- Filed
- December 11, 2013
- Granted
- September 8, 2015
- Expires
- March 11, 2034
- Inventor
- SLAUGHTER JOHN K; GERDTS TIMOTHY J
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica sub species nuciperisica ), and which is denominated varietally as ‘Burnectthirty’, and which further produces an attractively colored yellow-fleshed, non-melting, acidic clingstone nectarine, which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 18 to May 25 under ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.
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Having thus described and illustrated our new variety nectarine tree, what we claim is new and desire to secure by plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, and which is characterized principally as to novelty by producing an attractively colored, yellow-fleshed, non-melting, and acidic clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 18 to May 25 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.
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