US Plant Patent PP5198
Carnation plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 30, 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
- PP5198
- Filed
- September 30, 1982
- Granted
- February 28, 1984
- Expires
- September 30, 2002
- Inventor
- CARRIER LEONARD E
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of carnation plant named Big Red, which was originated by me by crossing numbered but unnamed and unpatented seedlings.
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 cultivar of carnation plant named Big Red substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a very vigorous and free-breaking plant habit, and strong and straight stems; superior resistance to soil-borne diseases such as Fusarium oxysporium and Fusarium roseum and other root-rots such as damping off, water molds, and the like; large serrated flowers which open fully without bursting the calyx and causing "splits"; a distinctive and attractive red flower color which does not fade and has no white streaks; and good heat tolerance which is superior to that of the parent lines and the so-called "Sim".
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5198 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.