US Plant Patent PP16607
Festival Time Yellow Improved
Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Festival Time Yellow Improved’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 20, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 18, 2024. This patent earned 122 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP16607
- Filed
- November 18, 2004
- Granted
- June 6, 2006
- Expires
- March 20, 2025
- Assignee
- CLEANGRO LTD
- Inventor
- REDMAN RUTH
Abstract
A new variety of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Festival Time Yellow Improved,’ having a dome capitulum of golden yellow decorative flowers with a contrasting orange center. The new variety ‘Festival Time Yellow Improved’ has an even branching habit with a good foliage presentation.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct variety of Chrysanthemum plant, substantially as described and illustrated herein.
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