US Plant Patent PP8196
Nectarine tree (Western Red)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 10, 2012. 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
- PP8196
- Filed
- February 10, 1992
- Granted
- April 6, 1993
- Expires
- February 10, 2012
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 third week in August, with first picking on Aug. 21, 1991. The fruit is uniformly large in size, excellent in flavor, attractively globose in shape, clingstone in type, very firm in texture, and almost full red in skin color. The variety was developed as a hybridized seedling with Red Diamond Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,165) as the selected seed parent and May Diamond Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,454) as the selected pollen parent.
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 its seed parent, August Red Nectarine (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,363), by producing clingstone fruit that is very firm in texture and late season in maturing, but is distinguished therefrom and an improvement thereon by producing fruit that is larger in size, has a higher percentage of red color, and that ripens 7 to 10 days earlier.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8196 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.