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US Plant Patent PP14442

Burnectten

Nectarine tree named ‘Burnectten’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 13, 2022. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14442, the photograph of Burnectten printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14442, 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.

The record

Patent number
PP14442
Filed
December 13, 2002
Granted
January 6, 2004
Expires
December 13, 2022
Assignee
BURCHELL NURSERY INC
Inventor
GERDTS TIMOTHY J; SLAUGHTER JOHN K

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica, var. nucipersica ) denominated varietally as ‘Burnectten’, and which produces attractively colored yellow-fleshed, clingstone nectarines which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 5 to May 11 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of central California.

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 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, clingstone nectarine which is mature for harvesting and shipment approximately May 5 to May 11 under the ecological conditions prevailing in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP14442 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.