US Plant Patent PP8002
Nectarine tree (Summer Blush)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 15, 2011. 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
- PP8002
- Filed
- April 15, 1991
- Granted
- October 13, 1992
- Expires
- April 15, 2011
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 large size, vigorous, hardy, productive and regular bearing tree. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described approximately the second week in August, with first picking on Aug. 10, 1990. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, attractively globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, and full red in skin color. The variety was developed as a hybridized seedling from an unnamed nectarine seed parent and an unnamed nectarine pollen parent. The unnamed pollen parent resulted from a cross of Red Diamond Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165) and Aurora Grand Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,792).
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is most similar to the August Red Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363), by producing clingstone nectarines that are very firm in texture and large in size, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that is full red in color, ripens 12 days earlier, and is sweeter in flavor.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8002 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.