US Plant Patent PP5664
Nectarine tree (September 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
- PP5664
- Filed
- June 18, 1984
- Granted
- February 18, 1986
- Expires
- June 18, 2004
- Inventor
- BRADFORD NORMAN G; BRADFORD LOWELL 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
The present invention relates to a clingstone nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, very productive and regular bearing tree, the fruit of which ripens around five days later than September Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,755) variety under the ecological conditions described. The skin of the fruit has a more exceptional red blush skin coloring at picking time compared to other late varieties which are known to us, is of outstanding firmness for shipping, and will remain picking ripe on the tree for about two weeks. The fruit is of excellent taste and has attractive form, and we believe it to be the best late shipping nectarine available.
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 September Grand (U.S. Plant. Pat. No. 1,755) variety but is distinguished from and an improvement on that variety and other known late maturing varieties in having fruit which ripens about five days later than September Grand, has a more exceptional red skin color, and is firmer and remains picking ripe on the tree for approximately two weeks.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5664 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.