US Plant Patent PP5623
Tasty-Gold
Nectarine tree (Tasty-Gold)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 12, 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
- PP5623
- Filed
- April 12, 1984
- Granted
- January 7, 1986
- Expires
- April 12, 2004
- Inventor
- ZAIGER CHRIS F
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which is of large size, vigorous upright growth and the tree being a productive, regular bearer of large, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with a high degree of red skin color. The fruit is further characterized by its ability to hold firm on the tree after maturity (shipping ripe) for a period of 10 to 14 days; the maturity period being 3 to 4 days before Fibebrite Nectarine (non-patented).
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 nectarine tree, as illustrated and described, which is a regular and productive bearer of large, yellow flesh, freestone fruit with excellent eating quality and maturing 3 to 4 days earlier than Firebrite Nectarine (non-patent); the fruit is further characterized by coloring two to three weeks before maturity, having excellent shipping and storage quality and having the ability to hold firm on the tree 10 to 14 days after maturity (shipping ripe).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5623 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.