US Plant Patent PP5359
Golden Sycamore
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 8, 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
- PP5359
- Filed
- April 8, 1983
- Granted
- November 27, 1984
- Expires
- April 8, 2003
- Inventor
- HOWARD DAVE
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 sycamore tree having new foliage of a lemon-yellow color, turning yellow-green with maturity.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having clearly described the distinctly new and different Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) tree, what I claim is: 1. The Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) tree herein described characterized by the lemon yellow color of its leaves and a slower growth rate.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5359 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.