US Plant Patent PP5485
Pecan tree (Jubilee)
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 15, 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
- PP5485
- Filed
- November 15, 1983
- Granted
- June 4, 1985
- Expires
- November 15, 2003
- Inventor
- CLEMONS MELVIN B
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
A pecan tree designated "Jubilee," a cultivated seedling, said tree displaying particularly valuable commercial characteristics in that it annually produces a high quality crop of thin-shelled nuts without the benefit of fungicide sprays under conditions of severe pecan scab disease pressure. Early maturity of the nuts further enhances the commercial value.
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 pecan tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of medium-early maturity of high quality, large nuts on an annual basis, without the use of fungicide in an area where most pecan varieties are severely affected by pecan scab disease, said nuts having medium-thin shells which separate easily from the kernel, and a self-fertile habit which assures good annual nut crops even in the absence of any neighboring pecan trees.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5485 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.