US Plant Patent PP4143
Renegade
Carnation named Renegade
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 8, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 7, 1996, but this patent ends 699 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
- PP4143
- Filed
- October 7, 1976
- Granted
- November 8, 1977
- Expires
- November 8, 1994
- Assignee
- DENVER WHOLESALE FLORISTS COMP
- Inventor
- KRAPES DAVID A
Abstract
A new variety of carnation plant distinguished by its profuse and continuous production from Spring through Fall of solid red blossoms about 3 inches in diameter borne on long stems branching from very tall and sturdy canes and by the virtually complete absence of splits and bullheads.
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 variety of carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its high production of medium sized red flowers borne on long sturdy stems, and by the very sparse occurrence of splits and bullheading.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4143 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.