US Plant Patent PP4244
Yellow Jacket
Chrysanthemum named Yellow Jacket
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 25, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 16, 1997, but this patent ends 752 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
- PP4244
- Filed
- May 16, 1977
- Granted
- April 25, 1978
- Expires
- April 25, 1995
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- GREINKE DAVID
Abstract
A new variety of chrysanthemum plant, particularly suitable for outdoor garden culture and for use as a greenhouse pot plant, characterized by its numerous, small, bright yellow blooms which are of single flower form and produced in a relatively open spray formation. This new plant is also distinguished by its excellent performance as a late spring, summer and early fall potted plant and as a natural season garden plant; and by its short, compact plant habit which requires no growth retardants and has excellent breaking ability when manually pinched.
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, characterized by its abundant production of small, bright yellow blooms which appear in single flower form in a relatively open spray formation on a short, compact plant which has excellent breaking ability and abundant medium sized, dark green and glossy foliage.
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