US Plant Patent PP4949
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 9, 2001. 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
- PP4949
- Filed
- March 9, 1981
- Granted
- November 16, 1982
- Expires
- March 9, 2001
- Inventor
- HARTMANN FRED B
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 dark yellow standard chrysanthemum selection of the variety Deep Yellow Hartmann's Dignity, particularly distinguished by its dark yellow color, which is solid on the entire flower including the underside of the petals, and by its more compact flower head and increased petallage when compared with the parent cultivar.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Hartmann's Gold Dignity, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its deep and solid yellow flower color, large and compact flower head, and its abundant petallage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4949 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.