US Plant Patent PP4791
Nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 15, 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
- PP4791
- Filed
- September 15, 1980
- Granted
- November 17, 1981
- Expires
- September 15, 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 nectarine tree which is large, spreading, vase formed; foliated with medium size, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin and medium size, reniform glands; blooms medium season from hardy, medium size buds, the flowers being large and pink; and is a regular and productive bearer of large, uniform, symmetrical, globose-oblong, early-season, freestone fruit having yellow skin substantially entirely overspread with red when the fruit is fully ripe, and the flesh being yellow.
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 nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is particularly characterized by the regular and productive bearing of yellow-flesh, freestone fruit which ripens intermediate the May Grand nectarine and the Early Sun Grand nectarine; the fruit being of slightly larger average size in comparison to said May Grand nectarine and Early Sun Grand nectarine, and somewhat firmer than the latter.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4791 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.