US Plant Patent PP4087
Pinktive
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 2, 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 622 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
- PP4087
- Filed
- April 15, 1976
- Granted
- August 2, 1977
- Expires
- August 2, 1994
- Assignee
- NIKLAS EDMUND R
- Inventor
- NIKLAS EDMUND R; MEEK JACK M; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
1. A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Pinktive and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of decorative inflorescence type and semi-incurve inflorescence form; purple inflorescence color with uniform color oxidation; diameter across face of inflorescence up to 4 inches at maturity; uniform 9 week flowering response to photoperiodic short-day control; tall plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern, and dark green foliage with deeply lobed shape and coarsely serrated margin.
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 chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Pinktive and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of decorative inflorescence type and semi-incurve inflorescence form; purple inflorescence color with uniform color oxidation; diameter across face of inflorescence up to 4 inches at maturity; uniform 9 week flowering response to photoperiodic short-day control; tall plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern, and dark green foliage with deeply lobed shape and coarsely serrated margin.
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