US Plant Patent PP10080
BA 77 700
`BA 77 700` Kentucky Bluegrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 15, 2016. 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
- PP10080
- Filed
- July 15, 1996
- Granted
- October 21, 1997
- Expires
- July 15, 2016
- Assignee
- OMS INVESTMENTS INC
- Inventor
- MEIER VIRGIL D; MAYER EUGENE W; TURNER J KEVIN
Abstract
A variety of Kentucky Bluegrass having a medium to high level of resistance to a broad spectrum of serious diseases, including leaf spot, dollar spot, rusts, and necrotic ring spot; an attractive green color throughout the growing season; good early spring greening; medium to high quality turf formation 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 plant, substantially as shown and described, characterized by a medium to high level of resistance to leaf spot, dollar spot, rusts, and necrotic ring spot; an attractive green color throughout the growing season; good early spring greening; medium to high quality turf formation under a wide variety of environmental conditions; a moderately wide blade; and a high level of seed yielding capacity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10080 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.