US Plant Patent PP4210
Flambeau
Begonia plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 7, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 17, 1997, but this patent ends 741 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
- PP4210
- Filed
- February 17, 1977
- Granted
- February 7, 1978
- Expires
- February 7, 1995
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A novel begonia of the elatior type having glowing red tepals and dark green, heavy-textured leaves.
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 known by the cultivar name Flambeau and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of bright red flower color, dark green foliage having thick blades and heavy texture; consistent propagation by leaf cuttings; relatively large flower size and tepal quantity with the tepal edges being ruffled; vigorous and upright growth habit, and by its resistance to powdery mildew.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4210 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.