US Plant Patent PP5571
Morrison's Variegated
German ivy-plant `Morrison's Variegated`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 18, 2003. 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
- PP5571
- Filed
- July 18, 1983
- Granted
- October 8, 1985
- Expires
- July 18, 2003
- Inventor
- MORRISON KENNETH M
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of the Senecio mikanioides family characterized by the well-defined variegation in the color of the leaves. Each plant has leaves that contain differing amounts of light and dark shades of green with a contrasting shade of cream color. The plant is unusually attractive when viewed with the normal green color of Senecio mikanioides.
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 Senecio mikanioides substantially as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5571 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.