US Plant Patent PP9395
SS-100
St. Augustine grass `SS-100`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 6, 2014. 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
- PP9395
- Filed
- April 6, 1994
- Granted
- December 5, 1995
- Expires
- April 6, 2014
- Assignee
- SOD SOLUTIONS INC
- Inventor
- KIRKLAND ELMER R; WAGNER TOBEY A
Abstract
A perennial, vegetatively propagated St. Augustine grass having dark green leaves and having shade tolerance, cold and frost tolerance, and drought tolerance.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
That which is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct variety of St. Augustine grass, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized by its distinctive combination of vegetative characteristics, its dark green foliage, its shade tolerance, cold and frost tolerance and drought tolernace.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9395 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.