US Plant Patent PP5997
Dracaena-deremensis-Warneckei
Dracaena-deremensis-Warneckei-Skunky
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 9, 2004. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 6, 2006, but this patent ends 485 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
- PP5997
- Filed
- February 6, 1986
- Granted
- May 19, 1987
- Expires
- October 9, 2004
- Inventor
- KRIESER ROY J
Abstract
A dracaena plant named `Skunky` particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of a solid white center stripe extending through the leaf and being approximately the width of the green marginal stripes midway of the length of the leaf, an erect and compact growth habit, and by its abundance of regularly spaced leaves which give the plant a bushy 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 cultivar of Dracaena deremensis named `Skunky`, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its solid white center stripe extending through the leaf and being approximately the width of the green marginal stripes midway of the length of the leaf, its erect and compact growth habit, and its abundance of regularly spaced leaves which give the plant a bushy appearance.
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