US Plant Patent PP9847
315 Buffalograss
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 17, 2015. 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
- PP9847
- Filed
- May 17, 1995
- Granted
- April 1, 1997
- Expires
- May 17, 2015
- Assignee
- UNIV NEBRASKA
- Inventor
- RIORDAN TERRANCE P; DE SHAZER STEELE SUSAN A; ENGELKE MILTON C; WIT JR LEONARD A; BAXENDALE FREDERICK P; SVOBODA JEANA L F; JOHNSON-CICALESE JENNIFER M; KINBACHER EDWARD J
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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 vegetatively reproduced buffalograss cultivar, named 315 Buffalograss, is distinguished by its excellent dark green color, high density, low growth habit, drought resistance, heat and cold tolerance, wear tolerance, low maintenance requirements and slow rate of establishment.
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 perennial female buffalograss plant substantially distinguished by its heat, drought and cold tolerance, excellent dark green color, high density, wear tolerance, low maintenance requirements and slow rate of establishment as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9847 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.