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.