US Plant Patent PP4474
Brocade
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 17, 1998. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4474
- Filed
- October 17, 1978
- Granted
- October 30, 1979
- Expires
- October 17, 1998
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A standard capitulum type of chrysanthemum plant which is a sport of the non-commercial cultivar Arcade, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,659, granted Nov. 26, 1974; Brocade being distinguished from the parent cultivar by its medium to dark yellow ray floret color, taller plant height, larger flower size, and longer flowering response period.
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 Brocade and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of standard capitulum type, incurved capitulum form, medium to dark yellow ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 145 to 170 mm. at maturity, uniform eight week flowering response, medium plant height, and excellent shipping durability.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4474 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.