US Plant Patent PP4229
Camino Bronze
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 28, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 28, 1997, but this patent ends 731 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
- PP4229
- Filed
- March 28, 1977
- Granted
- March 28, 1978
- Expires
- March 28, 1995
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A sport of Panorama differing therefrom by its orange-bronze ray floret color.
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, known by the cultivar name Camino Bronze and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, daisy capitulum type, orange-bronze ray floret color with minimal color oxidation, uniform 9 week flowering response to photoperiodic shortday control, medium plant height, diameter across face of capitulum from 60 to 80 mm. at maturity, and semi-upright branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4229 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.