US Plant Patent PP4960
Luv
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 18, 2000. 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
- PP4960
- Filed
- June 18, 1980
- Granted
- November 30, 1982
- Expires
- June 18, 2000
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- MEEK JACK M; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Luv and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; lavender pink ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 105 to 115 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; short plant height when grown as a pinched disbud pot; and semi-spreading branching pattern.
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 of Luv, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; lavender pink ray floret color, with minimal color oxidation; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 105 to 115 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; short plant height; and semi-spreading branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4960 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.