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US Plant Patent PP25232

Pearlicious XXIII

Nectarine tree named ‘Pearlicious XXIII’

UNDER PATENT

Still under patent. Protection ends March 8, 2033.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 13, 2032. This patent earned 85 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP25232, the photograph of Pearlicious XXIII printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP25232, 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
PP25232
Filed
December 13, 2012
Granted
January 20, 2015
Expires
March 8, 2033
Assignee
GLEN LOWELL
Inventor
GLEN LOWELL

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, Prunus persica , broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The variety blooms in the early to mid season and requires about 425 chilling hours. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late May, with first picking on May 28, 2012. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm and melting in texture, white in flesh color, full red in skin color, and a tasty balance of low acid and sugar in flavor.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Pearlicious II’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 22,579) nectarine by blooming somewhat early, by being self-fertile, and by producing white flesh nectarines that have a bitter kernel and that are firm, sweet, and nearly full red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom by having reniform instead of globose leaf glands and by producing fruit that is clingstone rather than freestone, that is somewhat smaller in size, and that matures about four days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP25232 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.