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
- Assignee
- AQUASCAPES UNLTD INC
- 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.