US Plant Patent PP4130
Plume
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 18, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 23, 1996, but this patent ends 675 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
- PP4130
- Filed
- August 23, 1976
- Granted
- October 18, 1977
- Expires
- October 18, 1994
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
This novel yellow spider chrysanthemum has the ability to produce quality blooms in spring, summer, and fall 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 Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat. plant known by the cultivar name Plume and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat inflorescence form; spider inflorescence type; medium yellow inflorescence color, oxidizing to light yellow at maturity; diameter across face of inflorescence ranging from 90 to 140 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height; and semi-upright branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4130 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.