US Plant Patent PP4099
Georgia Ann
Carnation plant named Georgia Ann
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
- PP4099
- Filed
- October 12, 1976
- Granted
- September 6, 1977
- Expires
- September 6, 1994
- Assignee
- DENVER WHOLESALE FLORISTS COMP
- Inventor
- QUINN VINCENT P
Abstract
A new variety of white carnation plant of the spray type characterized by its vigorous growth and exceptionally profuse production of high centered flowers of relatively small size borne on strong upright stems and blooming continuously through the spring and fall months.
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 plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its profuse production of white spray-type inflorescence, the flowers being of a relatively small size but high centered with alternate whorls of incised and ruffled petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4099 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.