US Plant Patent PP5204
Mintop
Carnation named Mintop
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 26, 2002. 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
- PP5204
- Filed
- July 26, 1982
- Granted
- March 13, 1984
- Expires
- July 26, 2002
- Inventor
- KLEMM SIEGFRIED
Abstract
A new hybrid spray carnation distinguished by its profuse and continuous production of deep pink flowers of medium size, each petal of which is bordered with a ruffled white margin about 5 mm. in width, the flowers being borne singly on strong upright pedicels carried in a spray arrangement on sturdy upright peduncles about 45 cm. long.
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 varity of carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and descried, characterized by its high productivity of bright pink flowers borne singly on rigid, generally upright pedicels carried in spray arrangement on a sturdy upright peduncle, the flowers being characterized by having petals which have ruffled margins of clear white.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5204 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.