US Plant Patent PP4483
Free Spirit
Chrysanthemum named Free Spirit
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 28, 1998. 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
- PP4483
- Filed
- November 28, 1978
- Granted
- November 13, 1979
- Expires
- November 28, 1998
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- PETUSKY KERRY S
Abstract
A greenhouse chrysanthemum cultivar of the pot plant type originated as a sport of the variety "Spirit" and distinguished by its large, generally white blooms having quilled ray florets which project radially from an upstanding group of inner florets having a pale yellow cast.
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 chrysanthemum pot plant, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized in uniqueness, when compared with its parent "Spirit", by its quill-shaped ray florets which project in a radial fashion from an upstanding group of the inner or disc florets.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4483 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.