US Plant Patent PP4336
Ba 62-55-M
Kentucky bluegrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 27, 1997. 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
- PP4336
- Filed
- December 27, 1977
- Granted
- November 28, 1978
- Expires
- December 27, 1997
- Assignee
- SCOTT & SONS CO O M
- Inventor
- MAYER EUGENE W; FUCHIGAMI TORAO T
Abstract
A variety of Kentucky bluegrass having a good level of disease resistance and in particular to the leaf spot diseases. The variety provides a desirable dark blue green color throughout the growing season, a color which is accented during cool periods of the year as found in spring and fall months. The variety produces a thick dense turf and persists throughout the growing season under a wide range of environmental conditions.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is: 1. A variety of bluegrass plant, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by a high level of resistance to disease and especially leaf spot disease, a desirable dark blue-green color throughout the growing season but particularly during cool periods of the year, a thick dense turf and persistance under a wide variety of environmental conditions.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4336 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.