US Plant Patent PP10717
Martin
Neoregelia plant named `Martin`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 11, 2017. 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
- PP10717
- Filed
- July 11, 1997
- Granted
- December 8, 1998
- Expires
- July 11, 2017
- Inventor
- SKOTAK JR CHESTER
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Neoregelia plant named `Martin`, characterized by its leaves with a greenish-white (R.H.S. 150C-D) and red-purple (R.H.S. 58A) center with white spotted marmoration on the upper surface of the leaves above the sheath and greyed-purple (R.H.S. 187A) on the surface leaf at the sheath bordered by variegation down the entire length of the leaf and light green margin (R.H.S. 143B-C); the innermost leaves at the center of the rosette, when in flower, are overlayed with red (R.H.S. 53A); the margins of the leaves are finely serrated; and the form of the plant is a uniform rosette with long, lingulate and recurved leaves.
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 Neoregelia plant named `Martin`, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10717 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.