US Plant Patent PP10487
Cactaceae plant named Rudolph II
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 10, 2017. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP10487
- Filed
- March 10, 1997
- Granted
- July 7, 1998
- Expires
- March 10, 2017
- Assignee
- BAY CITY FLOWER CO
- Inventor
- MARTINS MARIO LUCIANO
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family discovered as a sport in a bench of Schlumbergera truncata `Dark Maria`. The present invention is distinguished from `Dark Maria` and other known related varieties by a growth habit which combines a "reddish" colored bloom, a strong resistance to bud abscission, a strong propensity for buds to mature and flower, and considerable resistance to fungal diseases. The new variety also possesses the commercially desirable characteristics of a fast growth rate, a strong propensity to branch with minimal pruning, erect stems, and a considerable resistance to nutrient deficiencies.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of cactus plant substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10487 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.