US Plant Patent PP7699
FX-33
St. Augustinegrass named `FX-33`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 7, 2009. 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
- PP7699
- Filed
- July 7, 1989
- Granted
- October 29, 1991
- Expires
- July 7, 2009
Abstract
A perennial, vegetatively propagated St. Augustinegrass genotype having resistance to two populations of the southern chinch bug, resistance to seasonal drought, and many hairs on the young leaf blades.
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 variety of St. Augustinegrass, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized by its many hairs on the young leaf blades, its superior resistance to seasonal drought when grown in a humid region with shallow subsurface soil moisture, and its resistance to STD and PDP populations of the southern chinch bug.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7699 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.