Spring Pearl

Spring Pearl

Nectarine tree named ‘Spring Pearl’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 18, 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 91 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16034, the photograph of Spring Pearl printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16034, 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.

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nectarine tree 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 approximately the third week in June, with first picking on Jun. 21, 2003. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, white in flesh color, and red in skin color. The variety was developed as an open pollinated seedling from an unnamed white flesh nectarine.

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 ‘June Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,360) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are very firm in texture, sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, clingstone in type, and nearly full red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that is more globose in shape, has virtually no protruding tips at the apex, is larger in size, and matures about five days later.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16034 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

Abstract