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US Plant Patent PP16585

Sugarine I

Nectarine tree named ‘Sugarine I’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 4, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 6, 2025. This patent earned 149 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16585, the photograph of Sugarine I printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16585, 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
PP16585
Filed
January 6, 2005
Granted
May 30, 2006
Expires
June 4, 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 the first picking Jun. 25, 2004. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sub-acidic and very sweet in flavor, globose in shape, clingstone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Bright Pearl’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,359) white flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and ‘Spring Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) yellow flesh nectarine 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 pollen parent, ‘Spring Bright’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,507) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are nearly globose in shape, very firm in texture, clingstone in type, yellow in flesh color, and nearly full red in skin color, but is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit that matures about two weeks later, that is larger in size, and that is sweeter and sub-acidic instead of acidic in flavor.

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