US Plant Patent PP5455
Nectarine tree (Spring Diamond)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 23, 2003. 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
- PP5455
- Filed
- September 23, 1983
- Granted
- April 30, 1985
- Expires
- September 23, 2003
- 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
The present invention relates to a nectarine tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, productive and regular bearing tree, the fruit of which ripens the last week of June under the ecological conditions described, with the first picking on June 22, 1983. The fruit is freestone, of excellent firmness and has an attractive overall red skin.
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 freestone nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which most closely resembles Mike Grand (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,791) but ripens about four days later and is further distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by fruit having a skin which is smoother and has a fuller red color when shipping ripe, and is somewhat larger and firmer when shipping ripe.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5455 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.