US Plant Patent PP9491
Ficus plant named Indigo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 31, 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
- PP9491
- Filed
- January 31, 1995
- Granted
- March 26, 1996
- Expires
- January 31, 2015
- Assignee
- PLANTENKWEKERIJ P VAN GEEST B
- Inventor
- VAN GEEST J
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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 plant having dark green leaf blades and a variegated lighter green irregularly shaped section on mature foliage.
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 named `Indigo`, substantially as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9491 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.