US Plant Patent PP4042
Nectarine tree
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 19, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 28, 1996, but this patent ends 770 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4042
- Filed
- May 28, 1976
- Granted
- April 19, 1977
- Expires
- April 19, 1994
- Inventor
- KOVACEVICH JOHN J
Abstract
A nectarine tree generally similar to the Sunrise Nectarine Tree of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,256 which bears yellow fleshed semi-freestone fruit from 10 days to 2 weeks earlier than the Sunrise.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is generally similar in tree and fruit to the Sunrise Nectarine Tree of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,256, of which it is a sport, but which bears fruit which ripens from 10 days to 2 weeks earlier than the Sunrise, approximately at the same time as the Armking of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,943 and 7 to 10 days after the Mayred of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,758.
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