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US Plant Patent PP9955

PVN-1

Schefflera arboricola `PVN-1`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 24, 2015. 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
PP9955
Filed
April 24, 1995
Granted
July 8, 1997
Expires
April 24, 2015
Inventor
BOTTOMS ELLSWORTH D; BOTTOMS LUSEANE M

Abstract

A Schefflera arboricola which truly a dwarf cultivar wherein the various dimensions of the plant parts are proportionally smaller, but is of substantially the same color as the usual plant, the instant plant having been asexually reproduced from a bud sport initially discovered on a normal sized Schefflera arboricola.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

We claim: 1. A dwarf Schefflera arboricola plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by its almost perfectly dwarfed dimensions as compared with the usual Schefflera arboricola.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9955 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.