US Plant Patent PP10636
Diamond
`Diamond` zoysiagrass plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 6, 2017. 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
- PP10636
- Filed
- May 6, 1997
- Granted
- October 6, 1998
- Expires
- May 6, 2017
- Assignee
- TEXAS A & M UNIV SYS
- Inventor
- ENGELKE MILTON CHARLES
Abstract
An asexually reproduced variety of perennial zoysiagrass with a unique combination of characters including an absence of leaf blade hairs, deep rhizomes, good recovery from sod harvest, high salinity tolerance, good shade tolerance, and a distinct DNA fingerprint.
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 zoysiagrass (Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr.) plant as described and illustrated herein, having the principle distinguishing characteristics of white stigmas, and absence of leaf blade hairs, deep rhizomes, good recovery from sod harvest, high salinity tolerance, good shade tolerance, and a distinct DNA fingerprint.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10636 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.