US Plant Patent PP5010
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 21, 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
- PP5010
- Filed
- September 21, 1981
- Granted
- March 22, 1983
- Expires
- September 21, 2001
- Inventor
- MAY EARL T
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
The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum Plant distinguished from its parent, as well as any other variety known to me, by its darker flower color, an earlier display of bud color, an overall flower response which is three to four days later, and a more coarse flower form due to lateral petal roll and notched petal tips.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive cultivar of chrysanthemum plant, substantially as herein described, and distinguished from its parent by a darker flower color, an earlier display of bud color and an overall flower response which is 3-4 days later, and a more coarse flower form due to lateral petal roll and/or rudimentary appendages -- notched petal tips.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5010 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.