US Plant Patent PP4211
Pink Fantasy
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
- PP4211
- Filed
- February 17, 1977
- Granted
- February 7, 1978
- Expires
- February 7, 1995
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A begonia cultivar having light pink tepals giving the appearance of azalea blossoms.
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 Pink Fantasy and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of light pink flower color, excellent keeping qualities; upright, compact and relatively slow growth habit; excellent appearance due to flower form and placement against the foliage background; good propagation from leaf cuttings, and by its resistance to disease.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4211 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.