US Plant Patent PP4218
Splash
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 7, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 17, 1997, but this patent ends 741 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
- PP4218
- Filed
- March 17, 1977
- Granted
- March 7, 1978
- Expires
- March 7, 1995
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A spider chrysanthemum characterized by its white ray florets and ability to be flowered throughout the year.
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 Splash and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, reflexing slightly at full maturity; spider capitulum type; ivory white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 100 to 115 mm. at maturity; uniform 10 week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; and semi-upright branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4218 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.