US Plant Patent PP4126
Lexington
Chrysanthemum named Lexington
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 11, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 15, 1996, but this patent ends 735 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
- PP4126
- Filed
- October 15, 1976
- Granted
- October 11, 1977
- Expires
- October 11, 1994
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum characterized by its single flower form, the clear yellow of its ray florets which do not bronze when finished cool, and flowers which are 3 to 31/2 inches in diameter when grown as a spray pot plant. This plant is also distinguished by its vigorous and upright pot habit which is adaptable to cut flower production and by its abundant, deeply serrated dark green foliage.
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 substantially as shown and described, characterized by its single flower form with clear yellow ray florets which do not bronze when finished cool and which do not reflex upon opening, by its upright pot habit, and by its abundant production of dark green foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4126 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.