US Plant Patent PP17086
Red Bright
Nectarine tree named ‘Red Bright’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP17086
- Filed
- December 20, 2005
- Granted
- September 5, 2006
- Expires
- December 20, 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 medium size, vigorous, hardy, self-fertile, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described in late June, with first picking on Jun. 24, 2005. 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 full dark 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 peach (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, ‘Ruby Diamond’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,918) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are nearly globose in shape, very firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and full red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom by requiring less chilling hours and by producing fruit that is larger in size, clingstone instead of freestone in type, and that matures about seven days earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17086 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.