US Plant Patent PP11956
Gelsemium sempervirens Conrop
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 2, 2019. 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
- PP11956
- Filed
- July 2, 1999
- Granted
- June 26, 2001
- Expires
- July 2, 2019
- Assignee
- PLANT DEV SERVICES INC
- Inventor
- LETLOW JAMES CLOICE
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 new and distinct Gelsemium sempervirens plant which possesses a compact growth habit and fragrant yellow flowers.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and unique variety of Gelsemium sempervirens plant named ‘Conrop’ as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11956 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.