US Plant Patent PP5719
Illini Summer
Chrysanthemum plant named Illini Summer
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 25, 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 536 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
- PP5719
- Filed
- October 12, 1984
- Granted
- April 15, 1986
- Expires
- April 25, 2003
- Assignee
- UNIV ILLINOIS
- Inventor
- CULBERT JOHN R
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Illini Summer, characterized by its flat capitulum form, single anemone capitulum type, bright yellow ray florets and somewhat deeper yellow mature disc florets, 45-55 mm. diameter across face of capitulum, short and compact growth habit, and its outstanding keeping quality for both form and color.
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 form of chrysanthemum plant named Illini Summer, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form, single anemone capitulum type, bright yellow ray florets and somewhat deeper yellow mature disc florets; 45-55 mm. diameter across face of capitulum; short and compact growth habit, and its outstanding keeping quality for both form and color.
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