US Plant Patent PP5591
Red Lion
Nectarine tree, "Red Lion"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 10, 2004. 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
- PP5591
- Filed
- February 10, 1984
- Granted
- December 10, 1985
- Expires
- February 10, 2004
- Inventor
- SERIMIAN LIONEL M; SERIMIAN DONALD M
Abstract
A new variety of nectarine tree broadly characterized by its general resemblance to that of the Red Jim (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,518) variety, but which bears fruit having a shallow, inconspicuous suture which colors an intense red substantially simultaneously and evenly with adjacent skin portions.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described our new variety of nectarine tree, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described, bearing fruit which mature approximately with that of the Red Jim (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,518) which it most nearly resembles, in its regular and productive bearing of medium-sized, clingstone fruit, but from which it is distinguished as to novelty by its fruit having a more spherical shape with a shallow, virtually inconspicuous suture coloring substantially simultaneously and evenly with the skin of the fruit as the fruit matures and by its leaves whose upper surfaces have a more vivid and darker green color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5591 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.