US Plant Patent PP7429
B-1
Bahiagrass plant `B-1`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 12, 2009. 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
- PP7429
- Filed
- September 12, 1989
- Granted
- January 22, 1991
- Expires
- September 12, 2009
Abstract
I disclose that my herein invention of a new genotype of Bahiagrass plant was discovered by me in a cultivated pasture at Manatee County, State of Florida. This new discovered Bahiagrass plant is a perennial with a prostrate to decumbent growth habit, exhibits an attractive dark green yellowish color, color 7.5 GY 4/4, has a fast rate of horizontal spread and produces prostrate to decumbent flowering culms.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus disclosed my discovery, I claim: 1. A new and distinct genotype of bahiagrass plant, B-1, substantially as herein described and illustrated, characterized particularly as being prostrate to decumbent (dwarf) in growth habit, faster rate of lateral spread, attractive dark green yellowish color designated 7.5 GY 4/4 and producing prostrate to decumbent flowering culms.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7429 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.