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US Plant Patent PP9900

Anthurium plant named Molly

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 17, 2015. 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
PP9900
Filed
November 17, 1995
Granted
May 20, 1997
Expires
November 17, 2015
Inventor
PLATE RENATE

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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 and distinct Anthurium plant named `Molly` particularly characterized by its round or elliptical red spathes each with a red-orange spadix which are held straight above the foliage on sturdy red-orange peduncles. Its leaves are very stiff, leathery, distinctly smooth, and somewhat glossy. The leaf petioles are short, rigid, and straight thereby giving plants of `Molly` a very compact appearance.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Anthurium plant named `Molly`, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9900 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.