US Plant Patent PP4092
Copper Hostess
Chrysanthemum plant named Copper Hostess
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 16, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 12, 1996, but this patent ends 788 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
- PP4092
- Filed
- October 12, 1976
- Granted
- August 16, 1977
- Expires
- August 16, 1994
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- DANIELSON ROBERT E
Abstract
A new variety of chrysanthemum plant of the pot-plant type for greenhouse culture distinguished by the orange-bronze coloring of its medium size blooms, good breaking ability, a dependable 9-week response, and the ability to be flowered year around under proper photoperiod control.
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 variety of chrysanthemum plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly, when compared to its parent "Hostess", by its unique orange-bronze coloration, less longitudinal petal roll and less reflexing of the outer ray florets, and by its larger flower size.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4092 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.