US Plant Patent PP5790
Snowflake
Asparagus Fern-Snowflake
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 5, 2004. 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
- PP5790
- Filed
- October 5, 1984
- Granted
- August 26, 1986
- Expires
- October 5, 2004
- Inventor
- FILIPPI JR JOHN; HELLERICK H BRUCE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Asparagus Fern, botanically known as Asparagus sprengeri is provided. The new variety is distinguished from the regular Asparagus sprengeri by a marked tendency to be variegated at an early stage of development.
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 variety of Asparagus sprengeri, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its general similarity to the common Asparagus sprengeri, but being distinct therefrom by (1) a marked propensity to be variegated at an early age.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5790 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.