US Plant Patent PP4560
Myoporum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 15, 1999. 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
- PP4560
- Filed
- March 15, 1979
- Granted
- July 1, 1980
- Expires
- March 15, 1999
- Inventor
- SMITH GEORGE C
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 Myoporum plant discovered in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., having a unique growth habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Myoporum plant discovered in a cultivated area, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by a distinctive woody plant prostrate in form attaining a height of 12 to 18-inches and a spread of 12 to 15-feet, leaves 1/2 to 3/4-inches wide and 2 to 3-inches long and dense growing ability making it especially useful for erosion and traffic control and of tolerance for pruning and shaping in any season.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4560 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.