US Plant Patent PP7073
Gordon's Gift bermuda grass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 5, 2008. 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
- PP7073
- Filed
- December 5, 1988
- Granted
- December 12, 1989
- Expires
- December 5, 2008
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 variety of Bermuda grass, called Gordon's Gift, having all the desirable traits of Alicia Bermuda grass plus excellent cold hardiness.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new variety of Bermuda grass as shown and described in this application.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7073 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.