Bright Sweet

Bright Sweet

Nectarine tree named ‘Bright Sweet’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 28, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 25, 2022. This patent earned 95 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14547, the photograph of Bright Sweet printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14547, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree, Prunus persica , and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late July, with first picking on Jul. 20, 2002. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sub-acidic and very sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed from an open pollinated seed from an unnamed yellow flesh sub-acid nectarine.

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 nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Fire Sweet’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,961) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are nearly globose in shape, very firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, mostly red in skin color, and sub-acidic in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by being larger in size and maturing about eight days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14547 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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