US Plant Patent PP5393
Bougainvillea plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 7, 2003. 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
- PP5393
- Filed
- January 7, 1983
- Granted
- January 22, 1985
- Expires
- January 7, 2003
- Inventor
- RICE JAKE W; RICE PATRICIA A
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Bougainvillea plant which we discovered in Stockdale, Wilson County, Texas. The cultivar name of the new Bougainvillea plant is P J Weeping Beauty.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Bougainvillea plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its variegated leaves having green centers and cream colored outside edges, lavender throated cream-colored blooms, denseness of leaves, fineness of stems, compact growth, and cascading branches.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5393 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.