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US Plant Patent PP9804

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`Ala` St. Augustinegrass

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 8, 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
PP9804
Filed
August 8, 1995
Granted
February 11, 1997
Expires
August 8, 2015
Inventor
HOLMES JAMES M

Abstract

An asexually reproduced variety of perennial St. Augustinegrass with a unique combination of characters including white stigmas, yellow anthers, an absence of leaf hairs, floret number per raceme, raceme length, leaf length, and internode length, having good turf performance, good winter hardiness, and a distinct DNA fingerprint.

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 cultivar of an asexually reproduced St. Augustinegrass plant substantially as herein shown and described, with a unique combination of characters including white stigmas, yellow anthers, an absence of leaf hairs, floret number per raceme, raceme length, internode length, having good turf performance, good winter hardiness, and a distinct DNA fingerprint.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9804 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.