US Plant Patent PP4570
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 23, 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
- PP4570
- Filed
- February 23, 1979
- Granted
- July 15, 1980
- Expires
- February 23, 1999
- Assignee
- SURABIAN BROTHERS
- Inventor
- CHAKERIAN JONATHAN P; SURABIAN DENNIS G
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 nectarine tree, generally similar to the Armking Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,943) which it most nearly resembles, bearing yellow fleshed, semi-freestone fruit of large size for its ripening season which is from five to seven days earlier than the Armking.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated our 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, characterized by its bearing of semi-freestone, yellow fleshed fruit which is of large size for its relatively early ripening season; and by its general resemblance to the Armking Nectarine Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,943), which it most nearly resembles, but from which it is distinguished by its fruit ripening from five to seven days earlier, having firmer flesh, and being more rounded.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4570 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.