US Plant Patent PP6248
Olympia
Nectarine tree "Olympia"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 2, 2006. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP6248
- Filed
- September 2, 1986
- Granted
- August 16, 1988
- Expires
- September 2, 2006
- Inventor
- KRAUSE WALTER D
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree denominated varietally as "Olympia" which is somewhat similar to the Red Jim Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,518) with which it is most closely related, but which is distinguished therefrom, and characterized as to novelty by producing fruit which is mature for commercial harvest approximately September 2 through September 23 at Fresno, Calif.; and which has fruit that has a bright red and glabrous skin; a firm flesh; and noteworthy storage characteristics.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of Nectarine Tree, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described which is somewhat remotely similar to the Royal Giant Nectarine Tree, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,107, with which it was discovered as an open-pollinated seedling, but from which it is distinguished by bearing fruit which is mature for commercial harvesting approximately (7) seven days after the Red Jim Nectarine Tree, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,518, approximately September 2 through September 23 at Fresno, Calif.; and which furthermore has a brilliant red and glabrous skin; a uniformly firm flesh; and a chilling requirement of at least five hundred hours below 45° F.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6248 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.