US Plant Patent PP5970
Chipper
Chrysanthemum plant named Chipper
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 18, 2005. 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
- PP5970
- Filed
- March 18, 1985
- Granted
- May 5, 1987
- Expires
- March 18, 2005
- Assignee
- BALL PAN AM PLANT COMPANY
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum named Chipper having a dwarf habit, free breaking, spoon ray florets, eight week response, and an ability to be grown year around in 9 cm. pots with little growth regulation.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chryanthemum named Chipper, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its dwarf habit; free breaking; spoon ray florets; eight week response, and by its ability to be grown year around in 9 cm. pots with little growth regulation.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5970 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.