US Plant Patent PP9454
Southern Home
Grape plant called `Southern Home`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 19, 2014. 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
- PP9454
- Filed
- December 19, 1994
- Granted
- February 20, 1996
- Expires
- December 19, 2014
- Assignee
- FLORIDA FOUND SEED PRODUCERS INC
- Inventor
- MORTENSEN JOHN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of grape with a unique leaf resembling the maple. This cultivar is adapted as an ornamental, dooryard grape that could be grown on arbors around patios and as borders on fences. The new grape is distinguished by vigorous growth and superior disease resistance, requiring few fungicide applications, making it environmentally compatible for use around the home. The grape is also distinguished by its foliar characteristics which make it visibly different than other commercial cultivars of grape.
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 cultivar of grape plant called `Southern Home`, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized by the unusual shape of the leaf, particularly by deep cut sinuses of the leaves resembling a maple leaf, and by the vigorous growth, disease resistance, and by the fruit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9454 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.