US Plant Patent PP4125
Elfe
Begonia plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 11, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 17, 1996, but this patent ends 676 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
- PP4125
- Filed
- August 17, 1976
- Granted
- October 11, 1977
- Expires
- October 11, 1994
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- ROHDE HANS JOACHIM
Abstract
This novel begonia was discovered as a mutation of Nixe, and principally differs therefrom by its appleblossom pink tepals.
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 cultivar of begonia plant characterized particularly by the combined characteristics of bright, appleblossom pink colored, double flowers; short full compact and upright growth habit in all seasons; a high degree of self-branching; round, heavily textured dark green foliage with nearly complete edges; rapid propagation from leaf cuttings, with the cuttings consistently producing four to six adventitious shoots at all times of the year; excellent keeping quality and long flowering period, and by the uniform leaf area on each plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4125 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.