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US Plant Patent PP16258

Sauzee King

Nectarine tree named: ‘Sauzee King’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 10, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 17, 2024. This patent earned 113 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16258, the photograph of Sauzee King printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16258, 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
PP16258
Filed
November 17, 2004
Granted
February 14, 2006
Expires
March 10, 2025
Assignee
GARDNER LEITH MARIE, ZAIGER GARY NEIL, ZAIGER GRANT GENE
Inventor
ZAIGER GARY NEIL; GARDNER LEITH MARIE; ZAIGER GRANT GENE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree ( Prunus persica var. nucipersica ). The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Heavy and regular production of fruit. 2. Fruit with very good eating quality, mild, sweet, sub-acid flavor. 3. Early maturity of peento type fruit. 4. Vigorous and upright growth of tree. 5. Fruit with an attractive red skin color. 6. Fruit with firm white flesh, good handling and shipping quality.

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

1. A new and distinct nectarine tree ( Prunus persica var. nucipersica ) substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its large size, vigorous, upright growth, and a productive, regular bearer of medium, firm, white flesh, peento type, clingstone fruit with very good flavor and eating quality. The fruit is further characterized by having an attactive red skin color and, in comparison to its maternal parent ‘Honey Kist’ Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,333), the fruit of the new variety is white fleshed, compared to yellow, has peento fruit shape compared to globose and is approximately 8 days earlier in maturity.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16258 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.