US Plant Patent PP8061
Victoria
Fern plant named `Victoria`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 22, 2011. 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
- PP8061
- Filed
- July 22, 1991
- Granted
- December 15, 1992
- Expires
- July 22, 2011
Abstract
A new and distinct plant variety of the fern family that appeared as a mutation of the plant Asplenium antiquum. The present plant differs from the parent in having simple and foliaceous fronds with circinate venation and with leaves erecto-patent at the time of emergence becoming patulous with age, with a short stipe, and with mature blades being reflexed, entire, and regularly undulate along their margins.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct plant variety of the fern family substantialy as herein described and illustrated and characterized by a growth habit which provides specimens that have simple, costate fronds that grow in a rosette arrangement, and which, in comparision to specimens of the parent variety, exhibit a strongly and regularly undulate margin that contrasts with the repand margins of the parent.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8061 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.