US Plant Patent PP7736
Ficus benjamina plant named Reginald
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 17, 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
- PP7736
- Filed
- August 17, 1990
- Granted
- December 3, 1991
- Expires
- August 17, 2010
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A Ficus benjamina plant named `Reginald` characterized by its yellow-green immature leaves, with dark green variegation of varying shape and amount at and extending from the midrib. As the leaves mature in age, the yellow-green main leaf color becomes a darker green, with the variegation always remaining a darker green than the main leaf color.
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 Ficus benjamina plant named `Reginald`, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7736 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.