US Plant Patent PP14615
Hayes
Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Hayes’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 26, 2022. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 21, 2022. This patent earned 66 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP14615
- Filed
- June 21, 2002
- Granted
- March 16, 2004
- Expires
- August 26, 2022
- Assignee
- CHRYSANTHEMUM BREEDERS ASS NV
- Inventor
- NOODELIJK ROBERT
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named 'Hayes' characterized by its large sized blooms with orange ray-florets and yellow-green disc florets.
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 as described and illustrated.
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