US Plant Patent PP4186
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Crape myrtle
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 10, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 25, 1997, but this patent ends 805 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4186
- Filed
- March 25, 1977
- Granted
- January 10, 1978
- Expires
- January 10, 1995
- Assignee
- CHOPIN & WRIGHT NURSERY LTD
- Inventor
- CHOPIN DAVID EARL
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of the Lagerstroemia genus characterized as to novelty by a dwarfness in size, lack of continual vertical growth after maturity and a weeping growth habit at full maturity.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new distinct variety of Lagerstroemia indica plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by the distinctive Neyron Rose color, its height up to 10 to 20 inches, substantially no vertical growth at full maturity, and a weeping growth habit at full maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4186 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.