US Plant Patent PP11004
DDBGI
`DDBGI` buffalograss
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 15, 2016. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 16, 2016, but this patent ends 1 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
- PP11004
- Filed
- April 16, 1996
- Granted
- July 13, 1999
- Expires
- April 15, 2016
- Assignee
- C & D TURFGRASS LTD
- Inventor
- DOGUET DAVID L
Abstract
A vegetatively reproduced buffalograss cultivar, named `DDBGI`, is distinguished by its low growth habit, medium light green color, high density, excellent vigor, heat and drought tolerance, adaptation in the South, and low maintenance requirements.
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 perennial female buffalograss plant substantially distinguished by its low growth habit, medium light green color, high density, excellent vigor, heat and drought tolerance, adaptation to the South, and low maintenance requirements as herein shown and described.
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