US Plant Patent PP4829
Rocket
Chrysanthemum named Rocket
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 18, 2000. 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
- PP4829
- Filed
- July 18, 1980
- Granted
- March 9, 1982
- Expires
- July 18, 2000
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new and unique chrysanthemum for Fall gardens (early response) or for year-around four inch pot production (four weeks response), distinguished by its many vibrant pink daisy-like flowers, having bright yellow centers, borne on strong, upright stems; the plant having a vigorous, upright growth and profuse blooming habit whereby the plant forms a mound of color when garden bloomed in the Fall.
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 chrysanthemum cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized in uniqueness as a garden variety for early Fall blooming, as well as for use as a plant for year-around four inch pot production under photoperiod control, and by its profuse production of pink daisy-like flowers having bright yellow centers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4829 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.