US Plant Patent PP5517
Hilstar
Carnation named Hilstar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 8, 2003. 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
- PP5517
- Filed
- December 8, 1983
- Granted
- July 16, 1985
- Expires
- December 8, 2003
- Assignee
- HILVERDA B V
- Inventor
- HILVERDA JAN J
Abstract
A new variety of spray carnation having relatively small, bright red blooms which are produced continuously and profusely on sturdy, upright flower stems, the flowers being distinguished by their folded petals which are deeply and more serrated than usual, the plant itself having a vigorous and rapid growth rate reaching a height of about one meter.
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 spray carnation, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its continuous and profuse flower production, its rapid growth rate, and its normal height of about one meter with flower stems of about 45 to 50 centimeters in length.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5517 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.