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US Plant Patent PP9476

GUZ 214

Bromeliad plant named `GUZ 214`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 27, 2014. 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
PP9476
Filed
December 27, 1994
Granted
March 12, 1996
Expires
December 27, 2014
Inventor
KENT JEFFREY C

Abstract

A new and distinct bromeliad cultivar of the Guzmania family which produces bracts of a strong amaranth color which color commonly lasts three months, the leaves of the plant being variegated with strong white color throughout setting off the bract coloration not found in any known bromeliad.

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 Bromelioad plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterised particularly as to novelty, by the strong amaranth color of the bracts, the long lasting color of the bracts which characteristically lasts for periods up to three months and the striking white variegation of the leaves.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9476 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.