US Plant Patent PP5183
Liquidambar
Liquidambar tree, Fremont
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 1, 2002. 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
- PP5183
- Filed
- July 1, 1982
- Granted
- January 24, 1984
- Expires
- July 1, 2002
- Inventor
- SERPA FRANK J
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of liquidambar tree characterized by being truly evergreen. The leaves fall during their second year after the new year's leafy growth has emerged.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of liquidambar tree described, illustrated and identified by the characteristics enumerated above.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5183 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.