US Plant Patent PP8130
Leprechaun
Spathiphyllum `Leprechaun`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 25, 2011. 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
- PP8130
- Filed
- February 25, 1991
- Granted
- February 2, 1993
- Expires
- February 25, 2011
Abstract
A Spathiphyllum cultivar created by crossing parents which have the desired characteristics of free flowering for four inch pot production with leaf color of one parent and leaf shape and clumping habit from the other parent, the resulting plant having the desirable characteristics sought for commercial production.
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 cultivar of Spathiphyllum as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the larger size than the seed parent, with darker color leaves and similar finish, greater hardiness than the seed parent, free flowering production, with clumping habit and shape of leaf of the pollen parent, together with growth speed of the latter, hybrid vigor being better than both parents.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8130 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.