US Plant Patent PP4112
Cotton Candy
Azalea plant named Cotton Candy
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 27, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 1, 1996, but this patent ends 735 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4112
- Filed
- October 1, 1976
- Granted
- September 27, 1977
- Expires
- September 27, 1994
- Assignee
- GEO J BALL INC
- Inventor
- ROBERTS ALFRED N
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid azalea plant particularly suited for greenhouse forcing because of its vigorous and well branching growth habits, its prolific breaking, and its abundant production of ruffled and semi-double blossoms of delicate shell pink and creamy white coloration.
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 variety of azalea plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its prolific production of delicate pink and creamy white, ruffled and puckered, semi-double blossoms; and by its vigorous, well branched growth habit under pot-forcing procedures in greenhouse culture.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4112 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.