US Plant Patent PP5317
F189
Asparagus plant--F189
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 18, 2003. 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
- PP5317
- Filed
- February 18, 1983
- Granted
- October 30, 1984
- Expires
- February 18, 2003
- Assignee
- UNIV CALIFORNIA
- Inventor
- TAKATORI FRANK H; SOUTHER FRANKLIN D
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of female asparagus plant characterized by its erect growth to a height greater than six feet, its ability to produce an average of 25 to 27 stalks per plant and by its high branching (the first lateral branching occurs about 15 inches above soil level). The plant of the variety contains a gene which it imparts to its progenies and is expressed by the distinguishing characteristic known as "tip" flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of asparagus plant herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5317 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.