US Plant Patent PP9927
Empire Cabernet
Chrysanthemum plant named `Empire Cabernet`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 13, 2016. 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
- PP9927
- Filed
- June 13, 1996
- Granted
- June 17, 1997
- Expires
- June 13, 2016
- Inventor
- FUESS JANET S
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Empire Cabernet, characterized particularly by its red-purple ray florets, with the ray florets around the edges fading upon maturity to a much lighter red-purple color; fully double flowers which have no disc florets and which are very resistant to shattering; semi-upright cushion habit; 6.0-6.5 cm capitulum diameter; a natural season flower date of September 22, in New Hartford, N.Y. and seven week flower response in light/shade programs.
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 Chrysanthemum plant named Empire Cabernet, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9927 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.