US Plant Patent PP5283
Crepe
Crepe myrtle
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 5, 2002. 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
- PP5283
- Filed
- March 5, 1982
- Granted
- September 18, 1984
- Expires
- March 5, 2002
- Assignee
- CHOPIN & WRIGHT
- Inventor
- CHOPIN DAVID E
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of the Lagerstroemia indica 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 purple color, its height up to 24 inches, substantially no vertical growth at full maturity, and a weeping growth habit at full maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5283 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.