US Plant Patent PP9036
Ba 73-366
BA 73-366 Kentucky bluegrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 23, 2013. 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
- PP9036
- Filed
- September 23, 1993
- Granted
- January 3, 1995
- Expires
- September 23, 2013
- Assignee
- SCOTT & SONS CO O M
- Inventor
- MEIER VIRGIL D; TURNER J KEVIN; MAYER EUGENE W
Abstract
A variety of Kentucky bluegrass having a medium to high level of disease resistance, a desirable green color throughout the growing season, good drought recovery capability, a medium to high quality dense presistent turf forming ability under a wide variety of environmental conditions, and a high level of seed yielding capacity.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A variety of Kentucky bluegrass, substantially as shown and described, characterized by a medium to high level of resistance to several serious diseases, including leaf spot and melting out disease, several rust diseases and dollar spot; a desirable green color throughout the growing season; good drought recovery capability; a medium to high quality dense presistent turf forming ability under a wide variety of environmental conditions; and a high level of seed yielding capacity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9036 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.