US Plant Patent PP5654
Nectarine tree (Summer Diamond)
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
- PP5654
- Filed
- June 18, 1984
- Granted
- February 4, 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
The instant variety, having the cultivar name Summer Diamond, is a new and distinct variety of nectarine tree broadly characterized by a medium size, vigorous, hardy, very productive and regular bearing tree, the fruit of which ripens about the same time as the Fantasia (unpatented) nectarine under the ecological conditions described. The fruit is freestone, very firm and crisp, and has a uniformy bright red skin color. It is also globose to slightly oblong in shape, of better eating quality, and has a sweet kernel.
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 nearly resembles the Fantasia (unpatented) variety but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by bearing fruit which ripens at the same time but is much firmer and remains firm for a longer time on the tree, has a more attractive, globose to slightly oblong shape and a uniformly bright red skin color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5654 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.