US Plant Patent PP7821
Red Fred
`Red Fred` nectarine tree
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 27, 2010. 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
- PP7821
- Filed
- June 27, 1990
- Granted
- March 10, 1992
- Expires
- June 27, 2010
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree which is believed to be a mutation of the Early May Grand nectarine tree and is somewhat remotely similar to the May Grand nectarine tree of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,794 but from which it is distinguished by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting and shipment approximately one week later than the fruit produced by the May Grand nectarine tree and which fruit is more rounded, of superior firmness and exhibiting a superior color than the more yellow fruit of the May Grand nectarine tree.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of nectarine tree, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Plant Letters Patent is: 1. A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree substantially as illustrated and described and which is somewhat remotely similar to the May Grand nectarine tree of U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,794 with which it is most closely similar but from which it is distinguished and characterized principally as to novelty and nonobviousness by producing fruit which are mature for commercial harvesting and shipment approximately June 7 through June 12 in the San Joaquin Valley of central California, or about one week later than the May Grand nectarine tree and have superior firmness, color and shape.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7821 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.