Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP12198

Benni

Sagittaria australis ‘Benni’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 28, 2019. 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
PP12198
Filed
December 28, 1999
Granted
November 13, 2001
Expires
December 28, 2019
Inventor
HEFFNER RANDOLPH A

Abstract

Sagittaria australis ‘Benni’ is a new cultivar distinguished by greyed-purple leaves with green venation which are produced throughout the season, and greyed-purple bracts and sepals, which are apparent throughout the flowering season. The new plant produces a very desirable emerging aquatic plant, which is useful for decorations in ponds. The plant flowers from July through September.

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 Sagittaria australis plant, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its greyed-purple leaves with green venation which are produced throughout the season, and greyed-purple bracts and sepals, which are apparent throughout the flowering season.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12198 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.