US Plant Patent PP9644
Aechmea fascini Variegated Friederike`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 23, 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
- PP9644
- Filed
- February 23, 1995
- Granted
- September 17, 1996
- Expires
- February 23, 2015
- Inventor
- PIEPER WILHELM K H
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 new variety of Aechmea fascini is disclosed which is characterized by variegated leaves (creamy white leaf margins) and the absence of spines along the margins of the leaves.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of Aechmea fascini Friederike plant, substantially as herein shown and described and characterized particularly as to novelty by spineless, variegated leaf margins.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9644 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.