US Plant Patent PP4127
BALUGA
Begonia plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 18, 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 669 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
- PP4127
- Filed
- August 17, 1976
- Granted
- October 18, 1977
- Expires
- October 18, 1994
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- JOACHIM-ROHDE HANS
Abstract
This mutation of Ballerina principally differs therefrom by its smaller flowers which are more orange.
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 as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of orange flower; double flowers with odd number of tepals; compact and relatively short growing habit, and long lasting individual flowers which last up to 2 months.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4127 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.