US Plant Patent PP9050
695-1
Dieffenbachia named 695-1
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 15, 2013. 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
- PP9050
- Filed
- November 15, 1993
- Granted
- January 31, 1995
- Expires
- November 15, 2013
- Assignee
- FLORIDA FOUND SEED PRODUCERS INC
- Inventor
- HENNY RICHARD J
Abstract
A Dieffenbachia having distinctive variegated foliage having three colors on the upper leaf surface, with blotches and spots in light green areas of the leaves, white petiole color and a freely suckering habit provides a compact appearance.
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 Dieffenbachia plant substantially as described and shown herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its variegated foliage, having three colors on the upper leaf surface, the dark green margins, blotches and spots in the light green areas of the leaves, the white midrib surrounded by light green central area over 40 to 50 percent of the leaf surface, the white petiole and freely suckering habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9050 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.