US Plant Patent PP9209
BA 73-381
`BA 73-381` Kentucky bluegrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 19, 2014. 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
- PP9209
- Filed
- September 19, 1994
- Granted
- July 18, 1995
- Expires
- September 19, 2014
- Assignee
- OMS INVESTMENTS INC
- Inventor
- MEIER VIRGIL D; TURNER J KEVIN; MAYER EUGENE W
Abstract
A variety of Kentucky bluegrass having a medium to high level of resistance to leaf spot, melting out disease, rust diseases, and stripe smut; a desirable green color throughout the growing season; the ability to form a turf of good quality under a wide variety of environmental conditions; a moderately wide blade 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.
What is claimed is: 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 stripe smut, a desirable green color throughout the growing season, forms a turf of good quality under a wide variety of environmental conditions, has a moderately wide blade and a high level of seed yielding capacity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9209 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.