US Plant Patent PP5936
Chrysanthemum plant named Panther
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 20, 2005. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5936
- Filed
- June 20, 1985
- Granted
- April 7, 1987
- Expires
- June 20, 2005
- Assignee
- BALL PAN AM PLANT COMPANY
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH MAY V
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 Panther having globular cushion capitulum form and button flower type, bright yellow color, diameter across face of flower of 0.75" to 1.5", uniform eight week flowering response when grown photoperiodically, and natural outdoor flowering date of October 8 in the midwest and October 31 in Florida, and by its height of 6" to 8" when grown photoperiodically and 1' to 2' when grown outdoors.
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 Panther, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its globular cushion capitulum form and button flower type, bright yellow color, diameter across face of flower of 0.75" to 1.5", uniform eight week flowering response when grown photoperiodically, and natural outdoor flowering date of October 8 in the midwest and October 31 in Florida, and by its height of 6" to 8" when grown photoperiodically and 1' to 2' when grown outdoors.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5936 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.