US Plant Patent PP4515
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 31, 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
- PP4515
- Filed
- July 31, 1978
- Granted
- April 1, 1980
- Expires
- July 31, 1998
- Assignee
- JARDINES DE LOS ANDES LTDA
- Inventor
- HERRERA V CAMILO; SAAVEDRA REINALDA
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant with flat decorative capitulum which is a sport of the cultivar Firebrand (unpatented), being distinguished from the parent cultivar by its golden 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 Garden's Bronze and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of decorative capitulum type; flat capitulum form; golden bronze ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum from 90 to 115 mm. at maturity; uniform ten week response to photoperiodic short-day control; tall plant height; and semi-upright branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4515 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.