US Plant Patent PP13371

Shepherd

Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Shepherd’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 15, 2022. 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.

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The record

Patent number: PP13371
Filed: March 15, 2002
Granted: December 17, 2002
Expires: March 15, 2022
Assignee: YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor: WAIN PETER

Abstract

A distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Shepherd’, characterized by its upright, mounded and rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plants; uniform and freely flowering habit; daisy-type inflorescences; white-colored ray florets; and natural season flowering in early October in the Northern Hemisphere.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Shepherd’, as illustrated and described.

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