US Plant Patent PP5727
Ficus plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 26, 2004. 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
- PP5727
- Filed
- March 26, 1984
- Granted
- April 22, 1986
- Expires
- March 26, 2004
- Inventor
- SOOWAL JERRY
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 new and distinct variety of Ficus plant, having leaves more ovate in shape, a straighter trunk, the trunk and main branches of a lighter grey color, and being more resistant to thrip infestation than its parent Ficus microcarpa.
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 plant, substantially as herein shown and described, having leaves the color of its parent Ficus microcarpa but with a more ovate shape, and having a straighter trunk, a more symmetrical overall shape, and a trunk and main branches of a lighter grey color than that of Ficus microcarpa, and being more resistant to thrip infestation than the parent Ficus microcarpa.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5727 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.