US Plant Patent PP4156
Jamboree
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 22, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on November 18, 1996, but this patent ends 727 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
- PP4156
- Filed
- November 18, 1976
- Granted
- November 22, 1977
- Expires
- November 22, 1994
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
{PG,1 This invention relates to a novel chrysanthemum characterized by its spooned daisy inflorescence form and yellow-bronze ray florets.
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 Jamboree and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of spooned daisy inflorescence type; flat inflorescence form; orange-bronze to yellow-bronze ray floret color; medium green disc floret color at immature, unopened state; diameter across face of inflorescence up to 110 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short day control; medium plant height; semi-upright branching pattern, and minimal pollen development.
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