US Plant Patent PP4052
Redcoat
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 10, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 15, 1996, but this patent ends 706 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
- PP4052
- Filed
- April 15, 1976
- Granted
- May 10, 1977
- Expires
- May 10, 1994
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
1. A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum known by the cultivar name Redcoat and characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat inflorescence form, decorative inflorescence type, red-bronze inflorescence color with minimal color oxidation; diameter across face of inflorescence up to 3.5 inches; permanence of inflorescence ranging from 14 to 21 days; tall plant height; semi-upright branching pattern; good tolerance of inflorescence to frost damage; average natural season flowering date of September 26, 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 of chrystanthemum known by the cultivar name Redcoat and characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat inflorescence form, decorative inflorescence type, red-bronze inflorescence color with minimal color oxidation; diameter across face of inflorescence up to 3.5 inches; permanence of inflorescence ranging from 14 to 21 days; tall plant height; semi-upright branching pattern; good tolerance of inflorescence to frost damage; average natural season flowering date of September 26, and average flowering response period of 7 weeks in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4052 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.