US Plant Patent PP16494
Grand Bright
Nectarine tree named ‘Grand Bright’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 7, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 6, 2025. This patent earned 121 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP16494
- Filed
- January 6, 2005
- Granted
- May 2, 2006
- Expires
- May 7, 2025
- Assignee
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
- Inventor
- BRADFORD LOWELL GLEN
Abstract
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree, Prunus persica, and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in mid July, with first picking on Jul. 14, 2003. The fruit is uniformly large in size, mildly acidic and 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 as a first generation cross using ‘Ruby Diamond’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,918) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed yellow flesh clingstone nectarine as the selected pollen parent.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to its selected seed parent, ‘Ruby Diamond’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,918) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are mostly red in skin color, yellow in flesh color, mildly acidic and sweet in flavor, and nearly globose in shape but is determined therefrom by producing nectarines that are clingstone instead of freestone, that are much larger in size, and that mature about seven days later.
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