US Plant Patent PP14743

Gilded Tower

Miscanthus plant named ‘Gilded Tower’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 21, 2023. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP14743, the photograph of Gilded Tower printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP14743, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP14743
Filed: January 21, 2003
Granted: May 4, 2004
Expires: January 21, 2023
Inventor: SPEICHERT C GREG; GROUNDS ROGER

Abstract

Miscanthus ‘Gilded Tower’, a sport of Miscanthus ‘Giganteus’, is a new and unique cultivar that is characterized by its variegated foliage of yellow-green and deep green stripes with a white mid-rib.

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 cultivar of Miscanthus plant named ‘Gilded Tower’ substantially as herein illustrated and described.

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