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US Plant Patent PP12626

Bryant Compacta

Dieffenbachia plant named ‘Bryant Compacta’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 28, 2020. 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.

Figure 3 of US plant patent PP12626, the photograph of Bryant Compacta printed in the patent.
Figure 3 from US Plant Patent PP12626, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12626
Filed
April 28, 2000
Granted
May 14, 2002
Expires
April 28, 2020
Inventor
BRYANT THEO

Abstract

A distinct cultivar of Dieffenbachia plant named ‘Bryant Compacta’, characterized by its upright and outwardly arching growth habit; very freely clumping habit, full and dense plants, with typically about 20 offshoots per plant; and numerous and relatively small leaves with distinct green and light green and white variegated patterns.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Dieffenbachia plant named ‘Bryant Compacta’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12626 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.