US Plant Patent PP9956
GA-1
Calathea plant named `GA-1`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 11, 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
- PP9956
- Filed
- September 11, 1995
- Granted
- July 8, 1997
- Expires
- September 11, 2015
- Assignee
- GARDEN ARTS NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- KLINGER JOHN P
Abstract
A Calathea plant named `GA-1` having dark green round leaves bordered with a distinctive broad metallic silver 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 distinctive cultivar of Calathea plant named `GA-1`, as illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the orbicular shape of the leaves each with a distinctive broad silver band entire to its edge, a tinge of pink being present, fading as the plant ages.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9956 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.