US Plant Patent PP5378
Nerium oleander plant--Turner's Shari D
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 25, 2003. 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
- PP5378
- Filed
- May 25, 1983
- Granted
- December 25, 1984
- Expires
- May 25, 2003
- Inventor
- TURNER SR TED L
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 Nerium oleander plant which has a full and upright habit of fairly rapid growth, being particularly characterized by the unique color of its inflorescence, the flowers being a soft buff yellow color with tinges of pink.
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 Nerium oleander substantially as shown and described, having an upright habit of fairly rapid growth making it especially suitable as a screening plant, having an ability to be asexually reproduced, having the ability to flower off and on throughout the entire year, and being particularly characterized by the unique color of its inflorescence, the flowers being a pale buff yellow color with tinges of pink.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5378 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.