US Plant Patent PP15489

Oriental Gold

Arundo plant named ‘Oriental Gold’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 30, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 25, 2024. This patent earned 66 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

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The record

Patent number: PP15489
Filed: March 25, 2004
Granted: January 25, 2005
Expires: May 30, 2024
Inventor: SPEICHERT C GREG

Abstract

Arundo formosana ‘Oriental Gold’, is a new and unique cultivar that is characterized by its variegated foliage of yellow-green to creamy yellow with green stripes, its clump-forming, bushy habit and usefulness in container plantings .

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Arundo plant named ‘Oriental Gold’ as herein illustrated and described.

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