US Plant Patent PP6280
Ba 72-500 Kentucky bluegrass
Kentucky bluegrass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 19, 2006. 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
- PP6280
- Filed
- September 19, 1986
- Granted
- September 6, 1988
- Expires
- September 19, 2006
- Assignee
- SCOTT & SONS CO O M
- Inventor
- MEIER VIRGIL D; SCHNEIDER RICHARD; MAYER EUGENE
Abstract
A variety of Kentucky bluegrass having a high level of disease resistance, excellent turf performance in the sun and shade, and a good to medium level of seed yield potential.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed 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 green color throughout the growing season, a high quality persistent turf under a wide variety of environmental conditions including shady conditions and a good-to-medium level of seed yielding capacity.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6280 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.