US Plant Patent PP4045
Uleryii
Dieffenbachia named Uleryii
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 26, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 18, 1996, but this patent ends 784 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
- PP4045
- Filed
- June 18, 1976
- Granted
- April 26, 1977
- Expires
- April 26, 1994
- Assignee
- ULERY GREENHOUSE COMPANY
- Inventor
- ULERY DALE W
Abstract
A new variety of dieffenbachia plant characterized by the almost solid white color of the major central area of its leaves and the dark green color of the leaf margins, which color appears as though having been brushed roughly into the margins of the white area.
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 herein shown and described, characterized by the broad substantially unbroken white central area of its leaves interrupted only by its prominent veins and a very light green midrib, the margin of the leaves being of a solid dark green color which flows irregularly inward of the white central area.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4045 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.