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US Plant Patent PP16445

Yokristi

Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Yokristi’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 5, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 8, 2024. This patent earned 178 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16445, the photograph of Yokristi printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16445, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP16445
Filed
September 8, 2004
Granted
April 18, 2006
Expires
March 5, 2025
Assignee
YODER BROTHERS INC
Inventor
SMITH MARK A

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Yokristi’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and rounded plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; decorative-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets; yellow-colored ray florets; natural season flowering in mid-October in the Northern Hemisphere; and good garden performance.

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

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Yokristi’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16445 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.