US Plant Patent PP5456
Nectarine tree (Sun 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
- PP5456
- 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 in late June under the ecological conditions described, with the first picking on June 25, 1983. The fruit is freestone, has a full red skin color at shipping ripeness, good firmness, attractive shape, and a waxlike appearance.
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 Spring Red (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,619) but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by having fruit which ripens about seven days earlier and at shipping ripeness has a better firmness, a waxlike appearance of the skin, and a very symmetrical and attractive shape.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5456 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.