US Plant Patent PP6968
Kathryn
Asparagus plant--`Kathryn`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 24, 2008. 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
- PP6968
- Filed
- February 24, 1988
- Granted
- August 1, 1989
- Expires
- February 24, 2008
Abstract
An Asparagus plant of unknown parentage selected from an old field of the unpatented variety "Mary Washington" notable for its female characteristics, vigor, and resistance to rust (Puccinia asparagi).
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 plant as hereinfore shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its female characteristics together with its vigor, resistance to rust (Puccinia asparagi) when planted in isolation with a male plant producing F 1 seed.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6968 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.