US Plant Patent PP4100
Apache
Carnation plant named Apache
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 6, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 12, 1996, but this patent ends 767 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
- PP4100
- Filed
- October 12, 1976
- Granted
- September 6, 1977
- Expires
- September 6, 1994
- Assignee
- DENVER WHOLESALE FLORISTS COMP
- Inventor
- EUSER ANTHONY
Abstract
A new variety of carnation plant of the American type, particularly adapted to greenhouse culture for cut flower production and distinguished by the variegated purple-on-white coloring of its blossoms and its profuse and continuous spray-type production of flowers from early Spring through Fall on sturdy, upright and vigorous plants.
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 the randomly variegated purple on white coloration of its flowers, and by the profuse production of spray-type blooms on strong upright stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4100 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.