US Plant Patent PP5488
Cupressus macrocarpa
Cupressus macrocarpa
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 6, 2003. 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
- PP5488
- Filed
- April 6, 1983
- Granted
- June 11, 1985
- Expires
- April 6, 2003
- Inventor
- LIDDLE DONALD J
Abstract
A new Cupressus macrocarpa which is a sport of the Cupressus macrocarpa known as "Cupressus Gold Spread".
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 Cypress Cupressus macrocarpa named "Golden Halo" substantially as shown and described which is a sport of the Cupressus macrocarpa "Gold Spread" characterized particularly by low spreading habit and unique arching of branches from the base, stiff outward facing branching system, and by bright yellow coloring of the foliage, being most pronounced in the new stem growth in summer.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5488 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.