US Plant Patent PP10956
Columbus
Hop variety named `Columbus`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 15, 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
- PP10956
- Filed
- March 22, 1995
- Granted
- June 15, 1999
- Expires
- June 15, 2016
- Assignee
- HOPUNION USA
- Inventor
- LEWIS GREGORY K; ZIMMERMANN CHARLES E; HAZENBERG HENRY
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of hop, Humulus lupulus L., named Columbus, has a superior yield of cones and a superior content of alpha acids in its resin. The new variety was cultivated as a result of a cross at a nursery near Prosser, Wash., United States, and has been asexually reproduced in and about Yakima, Wash., United States.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of hop plant named Columbus, substantially as shown and described.
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