US Plant Patent PP6423
Annette Hegg Diva starlight
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 23, 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
- PP6423
- Filed
- January 23, 1987
- Granted
- November 29, 1988
- Expires
- January 23, 2007
- Assignee
- ECKE JR PAUL
- Inventor
- JACOBSEN PETER
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new Poinsettia cultivar distinguished by a more intensive bract color than other red varieties of the Annette Hegg family and a homogenious growth, in that all individual plants are equal in size and vigor. The branches of this cultivar are noticeably strong; otherwise this new plant has retained the important self branching, easy rooting, low temperature blooming and medium height characteristics of the Annette Hegg family of poinsettias.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive Poinsettia cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by the brighter red color than other red varieties of the Annette Hegg family.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6423 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.