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US Plant Patent PP4703

A22

Bluegrass plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 27, 1999. 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
PP4703
Filed
August 27, 1979
Granted
April 28, 1981
Expires
August 27, 1999
Inventor
WARREN BENEDICT O

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) characterized by its excellent turf quality, good disease resistance (especially to Helminthsporium leaf spot) and further characterized by good seedling vigor, maintenance of rich color, good upright growth habit and relatively few problems with temperature or drought stress.

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

I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of Bluegrass Plant herein described and illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4703 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.