US Plant Patent PP6655
Clems
Yellow leaf Forsythia `Clems`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 31, 2007. 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
- PP6655
- Filed
- August 31, 1987
- Granted
- March 7, 1989
- Expires
- August 31, 2007
Abstract
A new and distinct selection of Forsythia which hereinafter shall be referred to as Clems Yellow Leaf Forsythia. Clems Yellow Leaf Forsythia differs from other selections of Forsythia by possessing unique yellow foliage on the new growth up to 18 inches back on the branches, darker green mature foliage from the base up to the final 18 inches of the branches, leaf arrangements of two different types on the same shrub, and yellow blossoms in the spring.
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 selection of Forsythia as substantially shown and described herein, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of yellow foliage on the new growth up to 18 inches back on the branches, a dark green mature foliage, two different types of leaf arrangements on the same plant, and yellow blossoms in the spring.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6655 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.