US Plant Patent PP8318
Austin
Asparagus plant named Austin
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 15, 2011. 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
- PP8318
- Filed
- November 15, 1991
- Granted
- July 20, 1993
- Expires
- November 15, 2011
Abstract
A male asparagus plant developed from a persistent green male parent and because when crossed with a normal female plant, produces only male progeny and is thus homogametic for maleness, and is a hybrid that is superior in specific asparagus growing regions which may have long, dry growing seasons.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. An asparagus plant as herein shown and described, characterized as to novelty, which is homogametic for maleness and has the ability when crossed with persistent green females to produce plants which are well adapted to asparagus producing regions with long, dry, growing seasons, and providing high yield therefrom.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8318 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.