US Plant Patent PP5014
Juniper plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 22, 2000. 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
- PP5014
- Filed
- September 22, 1980
- Granted
- March 29, 1983
- Expires
- September 22, 2000
- Inventor
- GIRARD JR PETER E
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 and distinct juniper branch was discovered, from which a number of cuttings were made and rooted, said branch being discovered on an unpatented variety of (parent) juniper plant identified as Juniperus × Media.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of juniper plant substantially as herein shown and described characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its distinctive and unique dense compact low habit of growth and quick uniformity whereby very little if any pruning or trimming is required, its unusually intensely bright and attractive yellow color which it retains throughout the four seasons of the year, the foliage reverse side being a yellow green, the intense yellow color substantially dominating the entire plant, its unusual hardiness under extreme weather conditions, its relatively dense and profuse scale-like and needle-like foliage, its disease and pest resistance, its unusual ability to lend itself to accepted production methods, technics and cultural practices of field-grown nursery stocks, and by its absence of fruit, blooms, seeds and cones.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5014 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.