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US Plant Patent PP12905

Mike's Red

Nectarine tree named ‘Mike's Red’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 3, 2020. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 15, 2020. This patent earned 110 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP12905, the photograph of Mike's Red printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP12905, 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
PP12905
Filed
August 15, 2000
Granted
September 3, 2002
Expires
December 3, 2020
Inventor
MIKAELIAN MIKE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree is characterized by producing a semi clingstone fruit with a gold red blush coloration and is ripe for commercial harvesting and shipment August 15-20 in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California. The new variety is closely similar to the ‘August Red’ nectarine tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363) from which it is a sport but from which it is distinguishable in that the fruit ripens about three to five days prior to the ‘August Red’ nectarine tree and the fruit is somewhat larger in size than that of the ‘August Red’ nectarine tree. The fruit of the in instant variety has a very good flavor compared to the ‘August Red’ nectarine tree.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of nectarine tree which I claim as new and desire to be secured by plant letters patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described which is remotely similar to ‘August Red’ nectarine tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363) from which it is a sport by producing an earlier maturing fruit with good size and good exterior coloration and eating quality which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately August 15-20 or about three to five days earlier than the fruit of ‘August Red’.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12905 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.