US Plant Patent PP10166
Comco No. 1
Dogwood tree `Comco No. 1`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 18, 2015. 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
- PP10166
- Filed
- December 18, 1995
- Granted
- December 30, 1997
- Expires
- December 18, 2015
- Assignee
- COMMERCIAL NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- NICHOLSON HUBERT A
Abstract
A distinctive Dogwood cultivar of the Cornus florida genus and species having bracts which present an overall strong red appearance with white portions at the base of the bracts and white apical notches, the plant being vigorous and with distinct purplish red new growth, and resistance to powdery mildew.
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 dogwood plant characterized particularly as to novelty by the flowering bracts of overall strong red color with white central areas and white apical notches, distinct purplish red new growth, and resitance to powdery mildew in open field conditions as compared with other cultivars.
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