US Plant Patent PP9611
Ba 69-82
`Ba 69-82 ` Kentucky Bluegrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 30, 2015. 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
- PP9611
- Filed
- May 30, 1995
- Granted
- July 23, 1996
- Expires
- May 30, 2015
- Assignee
- OMS INVESTMENTS INC
- Inventor
- MEIER VIRGIL D
Abstract
A variety of Kentucky Bluegrass having a medium to high level of resistance to leaf spot, melting out disease, several rust diseases, dollar spot, powdery mildew and stripe smut; a desirable green color throughout the growing season; the ability to form a strong sod and a high quality dense persistent turf under a wide variety of environmental conditions; and has a medium level of seed yielding capacity.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A variety of Kentucky bluegrass plant, substantially as shown and described, characterized by a medium to high level of resistance to several serious diseases including leaf spot, melting out, several rusts, dollar spot, powdery mildew and stripe smut, and a desirable green color throughout the growing season, a strong sod former, forms a high quality dense persistent turf under a wide variety of environmental conditions and has a medium level of seed yielding capacity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9611 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.