US Plant Patent PP4607
Plant of the Bromeliaceae family
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 7, 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
- PP4607
- Filed
- May 7, 1979
- Granted
- November 4, 1980
- Expires
- May 7, 1999
- Inventor
- COBIA BARNELL 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 new plant variety of the Bromeliaceae family is related to the "Zebra plant", the "Pheasant Leaf plant" and the "Stiff Pheasant Leaf plant" and the like these varieties has irregular cross bands. However the new variety is primarily distinguished therefrom by achlorophyllous marginal areas.
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 plant variety of the Bromeliaceae family substantially as shown and described herein.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4607 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.