US Plant Patent PP6360
Chrysanthemum plant named Malvern's Yellow Dignity
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 31, 2005. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 13, 2007, but this patent ends 409 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
- PP6360
- Filed
- February 13, 1987
- Granted
- October 25, 1988
- Expires
- December 31, 2005
- Assignee
- BALL PAN AM PLANT COMPANY
- Inventor
- MALVERN RICHARD W
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Malvern's Yellow Dignity having the combined features of standard form, yellow ray floret color, and a high degree of curvature of ray 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 cultivar of chrysanthemum plant named Malvern's Yellow Dignity, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by the combined features of standard form, yellow ray floret color, and high degree of curvature of ray florets.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6360 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.