US Plant Patent PP8812
Hop plant named H87311-3
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
- PP8812
- Filed
- December 17, 1992
- Granted
- June 28, 1994
- Expires
- December 17, 2012
- Assignee
- HAAS INC JOHN I
- 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 (H87311-3) originating as the result of a controlled cross pollination between an unpatented John I. Haas, Inc. female hop plant No. 832-17 with an unpatented John I. Haas, Inc. male hop plant No. 833-53M, and unique particularly for its cones' unusually high percentage of alpha acids when compared to its female grandparent 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 novelty by its cones' unusually high percentage of alpha acids when compared to its grandparent variety Galena (unpatented).
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8812 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.