US Plant Patent PP4417
Aphelandra
Aphelandra plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 15, 1998. 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
- PP4417
- Filed
- May 15, 1978
- Granted
- May 15, 1979
- Expires
- May 15, 1998
- Inventor
- HICKERSON NORMAN E
Abstract
A sport of an Aphelandra squarrosa plant characterized by distinctive and attractive leaf color, which leaves exhibit a purplish red coloration in their midrib, petiole and abaxial surface of the blade.
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 Aphelandra plant substantially as herein described, characterized particularly as to novelty by a distinctive and attractive leaf-color having a purplish red pigment in sub-epidermal tissues of the leaves and being particularly evident in both adaxial and abaxial surfaces of the leaf midrib and in coloration of the abaxial surfaces of the leaf blade.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4417 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.