US Plant Patent PP15845
Rose Bright
Nectarine tree named ‘Rose Bright’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 1, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 18, 2023. This patent earned 105 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.
The record
- Patent number
- PP15845
- Filed
- December 18, 2003
- Granted
- July 12, 2005
- Expires
- April 1, 2024
- 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 June, with first picking on Jun. 2, 2003. The fruit is uniformly large in size, somewhat acidic in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and almost full red in skin color. The variety was developed as a second generation cross using ‘Red Diamond’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed grandparent and ‘Rose Diamond’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,421) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected pollen grandparent.
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 pollen grandparent, ‘Rose Diamond’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,421) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are nearly globose in shape and yellow in flesh color and that mature during the first week in June, but is distinguished therefrom by producing nectarines that are clingstone instead of freestone, larger in size, darker red in skin color and more acidic in flavor.
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