US Plant Patent PP10013
S4
Spathiphyllum plant `S4`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 26, 2016. 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
- PP10013
- Filed
- April 26, 1996
- Granted
- August 26, 1997
- Expires
- April 26, 2016
- Assignee
- OGLESBY PLANT LAB INC
- Inventor
- OSIECKI MARIAN W
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Spathiphyllum is provided. The plant is medium size, full, suitable for production in a 15-20 cm pot from a single tissue culture produced microcutting; grows vigorously; has early, abundant branching and dark green foliage. Natural flowering is early, abundant and year-round. Long-lasting spathes of unique shape and good quality from the onset of flowering are held on strong, straight peduncles.
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 plant named `S4`, substantially as described and illustrated herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by its medium size; vigorous growth; early and abundant branching; early, abundant, year-round natural flowering; good quality inflorescences from the onset of flowering and unique shape of spathes.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10013 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.