US Plant Patent PP4120
Pink Concord
Chrysanthemum plant named Pink Concord
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 4, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 15, 1996, but this patent ends 742 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
- PP4120
- Filed
- October 15, 1976
- Granted
- October 4, 1977
- Expires
- October 4, 1994
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of pot chrysanthemum plant characterized by its single flower form and flowers which have several rows of pink ray florets which possess good substance and long life and which have a minimal production of pollen. This new variety is not temperature sensitive, has an upright pot habit and good breaking ability, and an abundant production of flowers when grown as a spray plant.
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 substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its single flower form with several rows of pink ray florets and minimal pollen production, its upright pot habit and good breaking ability, and its abundant production of flowers when grown as a spray pot plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4120 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.