US Plant Patent PP5464
Medea
Carnation named Medea
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 29, 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
- PP5464
- Filed
- June 29, 1983
- Granted
- May 7, 1985
- Expires
- June 29, 2003
- Assignee
- MILEK EN ZONEN B V
- Inventor
- SARNEEL J F
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of carnation plant characterized by its continuous and profuse production of very light orange, or peach colored, blossoms of medium size, its tall and vigorous growth habit with strong stem character, and by its abundant production of foliage and its alternate branching character.
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 carnation, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse and continuous production of very light peach colored blooms, and by its vigorous and strong growth habit producing stong main stems about one meter in length and strong flower stems of medium length.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5464 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.