US Plant Patent PP4004
Nuggets
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 4, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 18, 1996, but this patent ends 775 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
- PP4004
- Filed
- February 18, 1976
- Granted
- January 4, 1977
- Expires
- January 4, 1994
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- MACK GRACE H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E; JESSEL JR WALTER H
Abstract
1. A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum known by the cultivar name Nuggets and characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat inflorescence form; pompon inflorescence type; golden yellow inflorescence color; diameter across face of inflorescence from 1.25 to 1.5 inches; permanence of inflorescence ranging from 14 to 21 days; medium plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; average natural season flowering date of October 5; and average flowering response period of 7 weeks in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar chrysanthemum known by the cultivar name Nuggets and characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat inflorescence form; pompon inflorescence type; golden yellow inflorescence color; diameter across face of inflorescence from 1.25 to 1.5 inches; permanence of inflorescence ranging from 14 to 21 days; medium plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; average natural season flowering date of Oct. 5; and average flowering response period of 7 weeks in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs.
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