US Plant Patent PP10778
Cavalier
`Cavalier` zoysiagrass plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 8, 2017. 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
- PP10778
- Filed
- July 8, 1997
- Granted
- February 2, 1999
- Expires
- July 8, 2017
- Assignee
- TEXAS A & M UNIV SYS
- Inventor
- ENGELKE MILTON CHARLES
Abstract
An asexually reproduced variety of perennial zoysiagrass with a unique combination of characters including an absence of leaf blade hairs, high turf quality, resistance to fall armyworm and a distinct DNA fingerprint.
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 zoysiagrass (Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr.) plant as described and illustrated herein, having the principle distinguishing characteristics of white stigmas, and absence of leaf blade hairs, high turf quality, resistance to fall armyworm and a distinct DNA fingerprint.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10778 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.