US Plant Patent PP9517
Frans Hals
Carnation plant named Frans Hals
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 23, 2015. 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
- PP9517
- Filed
- February 23, 1995
- Granted
- April 23, 1996
- Expires
- February 23, 2015
- Assignee
- LEK M & ZONEN BV
- Inventor
- SCHRAMA RONALD
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of carnation plant named Frans Hals, characterized by its bright red-purple base flower color, with darker red striations or speckles, generally flat flower form, generally wavy petal form, with crenate-dentate outer margin; relatively long and narrow leaves which are blue-green in color, and its funnel-shaped calyx with short, acute lobes infused with anthocyanin.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of carnation plant named Frans Hals, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9517 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.