US Plant Patent PP7966
Crape-myrtle named Summer Venus
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 25, 2010. 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
- PP7966
- Filed
- May 25, 1990
- Granted
- September 8, 1992
- Expires
- May 25, 2010
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. 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
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of crape-myrtle, named `Summer Venus`, which is characterized by its bright purplish red blooms, its dwarf habit, its extremely heavy branching habit and its extremely numerous amount of blooms. The new variety is hardy and well-branched.
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 crape-myrtle plant, substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7966 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.