US Plant Patent PP9621
Calathea plant named Eclipse
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 3, 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
- PP9621
- Filed
- May 3, 1995
- Granted
- August 6, 1996
- Expires
- May 3, 2015
- Assignee
- TWYFORD INT INC
- Inventor
- LAMB ANN E
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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
A Calathea plant named `Eclipse` having dark green round leaves bordered with a distinctive broad metallic silver-green band which is often variably tinged with pink.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Calathea plant
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9621 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.