US Plant Patent PP7680
Citation
Ficus benjamina `Citation`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 7, 2010. 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
- PP7680
- Filed
- May 7, 1990
- Granted
- October 15, 1991
- Expires
- May 7, 2010
Abstract
A sport of Ficus benjamina Exotica, presenting tightly or deeply curled foliage which in cross-section is V-shaped in contrast to the usual flat leaves of the known Ficus benjamina, the overall appearance of a bush of my new variety showing a general aspect of rather tightly curled appearance and thus denser whether as bush, shrub, pillar or standard tree form.
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 Ficus benjamina plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the tightly curled form of its leaves, which are deeply V-shaped in cross-section, presenting a dense overall plant appearance as bush, shrub, pillar and standard tree form, the other characteristics of my new variety being essentially the same as those of F. benjamina.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7680 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.