US Plant Patent PP7968
Crape-myrtle named White Fairy
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
- PP7968
- 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 `White Fairy`, which is characterized by its yellowish white blooms and its dwarf habit. The new variety is hardy, well-branched and produces a heavy quantity of blooms.
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 PP7968 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.