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US Plant Patent PP9976

C84-135

Bermudagrass plant TDS-BM1

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 26, 2015. 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
PP9976
Filed
July 26, 1995
Granted
July 22, 1997
Expires
July 26, 2015
Inventor
PORTER WILLIAM EMME

Abstract

An asexually reproduced variety of bermudagrass with a unique combination of characters including good turf quality, white anthers, fine textured leaf blade, high culm production, and a distinct DNA fingerprint.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of bermudagrass plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly by rapid vegetative establishment, superior shade tolerance, distinct DNA fingerprint; diminutive growth pattern, and white anthers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9976 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.