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US Plant Patent PP16467

Western Bright

Nectarine tree named ‘Western Bright’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 23, 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 107 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16467, the photograph of Western Bright printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16467, 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
PP16467
Filed
January 6, 2005
Granted
April 18, 2006
Expires
April 23, 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 mid June, with the first picking on Jun. 11, 2004. 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 virtually full red in skin color. The variety was developed as a first generation cross using ‘Diamond Ray’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,948) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed yellow flesh clingstone 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 seed parent, ‘Diamond Ray’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,948) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are large in size, 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 having globose instead of reniform leaf glands, by having a bitter instead of sweet kernel, and by producing fruit that has less skin freckling and that ripens about 12 days earlier.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16467 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.