US Plant Patent PP4362
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 1997. 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
- PP4362
- Filed
- December 12, 1977
- Granted
- January 2, 1979
- Expires
- December 12, 1997
- Inventor
- ZAIGER C FLOYD
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A variety of nectarine tree which is of large size, vigorous upright growth, being a productive and regular bearer of large size, firm, yellow-flesh, clingstone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red. The fruit is further characterized by its good eating quality and the high degree of firm flesh, and the ability to ship long distance markets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, as illustrated and described, which is a regular and productive bearer of large size, clingstone fruit, with firm flesh, attractive red skin color and of good eating quality; and fruit is further characterized in comparison to Gold King Nectarine by having smoother skin, a higher degree of red skin color, more uniform ripening and better shipping and storage quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4362 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.