US Plant Patent PP4792
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
- PP4792
- Filed
- September 22, 1980
- Granted
- November 17, 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 nectarine tree which is large-medium size, spreading, dense, foliated with medium size, lanceolate, acutely pointed leaves having a crenate margin and alternate, reniform glands, blooms from medium size buds and with large flowers about with the Aurelio Grand, and is regular and very productive bearer of early-season, uniform, medium size, symmetrical, globose, freestone fruit having yellow skin overspread with red, yellow flesh, and a medium size, beige stone.
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, characterized by early, regular, and very productive bearing of freestone fruit which--while generally similar to the Aurelio Grand--is somewhat larger, firmer of flesh, and ripens two to three days later.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4792 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.