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US Plant Patent PP5541

Josef Resch

Variegated schefflera plant `Josef Resch`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 10, 2003. 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
PP5541
Filed
January 10, 1983
Granted
August 20, 1985
Expires
January 10, 2003
Inventor
RESCH JOSEF

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Brassaia actinophylla, more commonly known as Schefflera, characterized by the extensive and attractive variegation of the foliage.

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 Schefflera plant of the species Brassaia actinophylla substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the overall variegation of leaves, stems, and trunk from mimosa to green, close noded position of stems and upright rapid growth with leaves of leathery semi-gloss appearance on the top side and leathery matte appearance on the underside, and with a preponderance of leaf stems at the top portion and the intermediary portion of the plant extending umbrella-like with leaves hanging on towards the lower portion of the plant.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5541 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.