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US Plant Patent PP15055

Western Sweet

Nectarine tree named ‘Western Sweet’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 15, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 25, 2022. This patent earned 263 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15055, the photograph of Western Sweet printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15055, 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
PP15055
Filed
November 25, 2002
Granted
August 3, 2004
Expires
August 15, 2023
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 early July, with first picking on Jul. 7, 2002. The fruit is uniformly large in size, sub-acidic and sweet in flavor, slightly oblong in shape, freestone in type, firm in texture, yellow in flesh color, and mostly red in skin color. The variety was developed as a second generation cross using ‘Red Glen’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,193) yellow flesh nectarine as the selected seed parent and an unnamed white flesh freestone nectarine seedling as the selected pollen parent.

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

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, that is most similar to ‘Grand Sweet’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,954) nectarine, by producing nectarines that are very firm in texture, nearly full red in skin color, yellow in flesh color, and sub-acidic in flavor, but is distinguished therefrom by producing nectarines that are larger in size, freestone instead of clingstone in type, mature about 5 days earlier, and have a sweet instead of bitter kernel.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15055 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.