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US Plant Patent PP17167

LATE BRIGHT

Nectarine tree named ‘LATE BRIGHT’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 22, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 20, 2025. This patent earned 2 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17167, the photograph of LATE BRIGHT printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17167, 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
PP17167
Filed
December 20, 2005
Granted
October 24, 2006
Expires
December 22, 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 early to mid September, with first picking on Sep. 7, 2005. The fruit is very large in size, acidic and sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow with red bleeding in flesh color, and about fifty percent red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘September Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,664) nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed nectarine (unpatented) 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, ‘September Red’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,664) nectarine by producing late maturing clingstone nectarines that are red and yellow in skin color, yellow with red bleeding in flesh color, acidic and sweet in flavor, and nearly globose in shape but is distinguished therefrom by having a sweet instead of bitter kernel and by producing nectarines that are much larger in size.

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