US Plant Patent PP5751
Da Vine
Banisteriopsis caapi (cv) `Da Vine`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 17, 2003. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 7, 2004, but this patent ends 509 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5751
- Filed
- November 7, 1984
- Granted
- June 17, 1986
- Expires
- June 17, 2003
- Inventor
- MILLER LOREN S
Abstract
A new and distinct Banisteriopsis caapi plant named 'Da Vine' which is particularly characterized by the rose color of its flower petals which fade with age to near white, and its medicinal properties.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and unique Banisteriopsis caapi plant substantially as described and illustrated.
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