US Plant Patent PP17206
PACIFIC SWEET
Nectarine tree named ‘PACIFIC SWEET’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 12, 2026. 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 23 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP17206
- Filed
- December 20, 2005
- Granted
- November 14, 2006
- Expires
- January 12, 2026
- 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 that requires about 500 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in the latter half of June, with first picking on Jun. 19, 2005. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, nearly globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and full dark red in skin color. The present variety resulted as a second generation cross of ‘Spring Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) nectarine by an unnamed white flesh nectarine (unpatented).
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 ‘Ruby Sweet’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,963) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are very firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, full red in skin color, and sub-acidic in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by requiring less chilling hours and by producing fruit that is much larger in size.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17206 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.