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US Plant Patent PP8824

Hop plant named 37 H87203-1"

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 17, 2012. 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
PP8824
Filed
December 17, 1992
Granted
July 5, 1994
Expires
December 17, 2012
Inventor
PROBASCO GENE

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 new variety of hop plant (H87203-1) originating as the result of a controlled corss pollination between unpatented Galena female hop plant with unpatented John I. Haas, Inc. (Haas) male hop plant No. 833-53M, and unique particularly for its cones' unusually high percentage of beta acids when compared to its female parent variety Galena (unpatented) and otherwise as herein described.

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 hop plant substantially as herein shown and described characterized particularly as to novel by its cones' usually high percentage of beta acids when compared to its female parent variety Galena (unpatented).

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8824 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.