US Plant Patent PP11580
GUZ 203
Bromeliad plant named `GUZ 203`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 13, 2018. 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
- PP11580
- Filed
- July 13, 1998
- Granted
- October 17, 2000
- Expires
- July 13, 2018
- Assignee
- KENT S BROMELIAD NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- KENT JEFFREY C
Abstract
A hybrid Guzmania plant is compact in size, having a height including inflorescence of fourteen to sixteen inches and a spread of about twelve to thirteen inches. It has broad and closely-set leaves. The leaves are medium-dark green in color and contrast sharply with the vivid red color of the bracts.
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 variety of Guzmania plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by a compact size, broad and closely-set leaves, and a sharp contrast between the bract color and the medium-dark green leaf coloration, the bract retaining a rich, vivid red color indoors for eight weeks.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11580 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.