US Plant Patent PP5818
Westland Sun
Chrysanthemum plant named Westland Sun
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 2, 2003. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 15, 2004, but this patent ends 318 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
- PP5818
- Filed
- October 15, 1984
- Granted
- December 2, 1986
- Expires
- December 2, 2003
- Assignee
- BALL PAN AM PLANT COMPANY
- Inventor
- VAN DER KNAAP JACQUES C M
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Westland Sun characterized by its flat capitulum form; spider capitulum type, tubular yellow ray floret color which does not bronze under cooler temperatures, 70-90 mm. diameter across face of capitulum, long peduncles, uniform nine week response, and its semi-upright branching habit.
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I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Westland Sun, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form and spider capitulum type, tubular yellow ray floret color which does not bronze under cooler temperatures, 70-90 mm. diameter across face of capitulum, long peduncles, uniform nine week response, and its semi-upright branching habit.
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