US Plant Patent PP5721
Stoplight
Chrysanthemum plant named Stoplight
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 15, 2003. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 12, 2004, but this patent ends 546 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
- PP5721
- Filed
- October 12, 1984
- Granted
- April 15, 1986
- Expires
- April 15, 2003
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- HESSE PETER S
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum named Stoplight having single capitulum type, flat capitulum form, brilliant red ray florets, diameter of 65-80 mm. across face of capitulum, and by its resistance to fading under high light and high temperature.
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 named Stoplight, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its single capitulum type, flat capitulum form, brilliant red ray florets, diameter of 65-80 mm. across face of capitulum, and by its resistance to fading under high light and high temperatures.
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