US Plant Patent PP4566
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 12, 1999. 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
- PP4566
- Filed
- February 12, 1979
- Granted
- July 8, 1980
- Expires
- February 12, 1999
- Assignee
- SURABIAN BROS
- Inventor
- SURABIAN AARON
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 new variety of nectarine tree discovered as a seedling of an open pollenated Red Grand nectarine tree growing in Fresno County, located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The fruit of the new variety tends to ripen later than the Red Grand variety and is characterized by a strong red color over a moderate orange, the strong red coloring spreads from a substantially solid covering near the base of the fruit to blotches of strong red coloring near the apex.
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 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 similar in size, productivity and regularity of bearing to the Red Grand variety of nectarine tree from which the new variety was derived as a seedling, the seedling was grown from an open-pollenated seed taken from a tree of the Red Grand variety growing near an orchard containing trees of the late LeGrand variety of nectarine tree; the new variety bears generally uniform, clingstone fruit characterized by yellow flesh and smooth skin having a strong red coloring over a moderate orange coloring, the strong red coloring spreading from a substantially solid covering near the base of the fruit to blotches of a strong red coloring near the apex of the fruit, and the fruit ripens in the San Joaquin Valley of California about four weeks later than the fruit of the Red Grand variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4566 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.