US Plant Patent PP5316
M138
Asparagus plant--M138
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
- PP5316
- 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 male asparagus plant characterized by its vigorous and multi-stalked growth, its ability to initiate between 25 and 35 canes per season and which is also characterized by its high branching (above the 16th node) and earliness of spear emergence--a characteristic transmitted to its progenies.
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 PP5316 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.