US Plant Patent PP5732
Illini Prairie
Chrysanthemum plant named Illini Prairie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2003. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 12, 2004, but this patent ends 532 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
- PP5732
- Filed
- October 12, 1984
- Granted
- April 29, 1986
- Expires
- April 29, 2003
- Assignee
- UNIV ILLINOIS
- Inventor
- CULBERT JOHN R
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Illini Prairie characterized by its flat capitulum form and single capitulum type, bright yellow spoon ray florets, 65-80 mm. diameter across face of capitulum, medium height and semi-upright branching pattern, superior floriferousness, and by its good form and color retention.
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 cultivar of chrysanthemum plant named Illini Prairie, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form and single capitulum type, bright yellow spoon ray florets; 65-80 mm. diameter across face of capitulum; medium height and semi-upright branching pattern, superior floriferousness, and by its good form and color retention.
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