US Plant Patent PP15949

Kiko

Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Kiko’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 19, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 23, 2024. This patent earned 117 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15949, the photograph of Kiko printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15949, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP15949
Filed: February 23, 2004
Granted: September 13, 2005
Expires: June 19, 2024
Assignee: CHRYSANTHEMUM BREEDERS ASS NV
Inventor: BOEDER MARK ROLAND

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Kiko’, which when grown as a disbud is characterized by large inflorescences, about 19 cm in diameter, with elongated quilled pink ray-florets, with response time of 56 days.

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 as described and illustrated.

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