US Plant Patent PP5284
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
- PP5284
- 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 12-24 inches, substantially no vertical growth at full maturity, and a weeping growth habit at full maturity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5284 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.