US Plant Patent PP5410
Carnation plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 22, 2003. 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
- PP5410
- Filed
- June 22, 1983
- Granted
- March 5, 1985
- Expires
- June 22, 2003
- 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 Carrier's Fiesta, originated by me by crossing unnamed and unpatented seedlings; distinguished from its parents as well as any other variety known to me by its pink-orange color, its superior resistance to soil borne diseases, and its flowers that open fully without bursting the calyx and causing splits.
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, Carrier's Fiesta, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of superior resistance to soil-borne diseases; large, slightly serrated flowers which open fully without bursting the calyx and causing "splits"; a distinctive and attractive pink-orange flower color which fades evenly and beautifully; a very vigorous and free-breaking plant habit; strong and straight stems; and good heat tolerance which is superior to that of the parent lines and the commercial standard, the so-called "Sim".
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5410 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.