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US Plant Patent PP11615

H900325-5

Hop plant named `H900325-5`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 31, 2016. 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
PP11615
Filed
December 31, 1996
Granted
November 7, 2000
Expires
December 31, 2016
Inventor
PROBASCO GENE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of hop, Humulus lupulus L., characterized by a semi-dwarf stature and named `H900323-5`, has an unusually high percentage of alpha-acids in its resin, early maturity and a resonable projected cone yield on low trellis. The new variety was cultivated as a result of a cross at a greenhouse in Yakima, Wash., United States, and has been asexually reproduced in Yakima, Wash., United States.

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 by the semi-dwarf stature, early maturity and unusually high percentage of alpha-acids in the cones compared to all other commercially available varieties in the USA.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP11615 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.