US Plant Patent PP9346
Golden Oji
Dawn Redwood variety "Golden Oji"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 16, 2014. 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
- PP9346
- Filed
- August 16, 1994
- Granted
- October 31, 1995
- Expires
- August 16, 2014
- Assignee
- NEW OJI PAPER CO LTD
- Inventor
- SHIBATA MASARU
Abstract
A new variety, called `Golden Oji`, of `Dawn Redwood` is valuable for landscape ornamental. The new variety has beautiful golden leaves genetically, so exhibits very lovely figure from spring to fall. The growth rate is slightly slower than that of a normal `Dawn Redwood`. The new variety becomes better in full sunlight or partial shade. The leaf color is extremely distinctive, that is bright yellow especially under strong sunlight. The new variety can be reproduced on a commercial scale by cutting or grafting.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of Metasequoia glyptostroboides (`Dawn Redwood`), substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by that the color of leave is bright yellow like gold especially in summer changing to brown in fall, and that the growth rate is slightly slower than the normal type.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9346 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.