US Plant Patent PP5469
Privet plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 14, 2002. 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
- PP5469
- Filed
- September 25, 1981
- Granted
- May 14, 1985
- Expires
- May 14, 2002
- Inventor
- WATES BYRON E
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 variety of Ligustrum distinguished by its small leaves and dense growth habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinctive variety of Ligustrum substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its small leaves, dense foliage and twiggy growth habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5469 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.