US Plant Patent PP5665
Nectarine tree (Scarlet Red)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 18, 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
- PP5665
- Filed
- June 18, 1984
- Granted
- February 18, 1986
- Expires
- June 18, 2004
- Inventor
- BRADFORD NORMAN 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
This disclosure relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a large, vigorous, hardy, very productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit of this clingstone nectarine tree was ready for picking around the third week of August, under the ecological conditions described. This plant resembles Regal Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,751) nectarine but is distinguished therefrom by fruit which ripens approximately two days earlier and has firmer flesh, and a brighter, redder skin color. The instant fruit has an attractive, uniformly globose shape and a good, less acidic flavor.
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 clingstone nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which most nearly resembles the Regal Grand nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No.1,751) but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by bearing fruit which ripens approximately two days earlier, has a brighter, redder skin color, and is almost completely globose in shape.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5665 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.