US Plant Patent PP9888
Champion Dwarf includes
Champion dwarf hybrid Bermudagrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 4, 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
- PP9888
- Filed
- October 4, 1995
- Granted
- May 6, 1997
- Expires
- October 4, 2015
- Assignee
- BROWN MICHAEL A, BROWN RICHARD M, BROWN SCOTT D
- Inventor
- BROWN RICHARD M; BROWN MICHAEL A; BROWN SCOTT D
Abstract
A hybrid bermudagrass cultivar, named Champion Dwarf, is distinguished by high rate and density of lateral stem development, low vertical growth characteristic, high density, fine leaf width, and lack of seedhead development. The cultivar is especially suited to golf greens.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Bermudagrass plant having 2n=27 chromosomes, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by a minimum vertical leaf extension rate in conjunction with rapid, dense lateral stem growth.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9888 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.