US Plant Patent PP4789
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 22, 2000. 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
- PP4789
- Filed
- September 22, 1980
- Granted
- November 10, 1981
- Expires
- September 22, 2000
- Inventor
- ANDERSON FREDERIC W
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 dwarf nectarine tree which is large for such type of tree, medium vigorous, spreading, open, vase-formed, and hardy; foliated with large, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin, medium length petiole, and alternate, reniform glands; blooms medium season from buds which are hardy and of medium size and length; the flowers being large and pink; and the tree being a regular and productive bearer of medium size, uniform, symmetrical, globose-oblong, early mid-season freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially overspread with red, and yellow flesh.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of dwarf nectarine tree substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4789 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.