US Plant Patent PP5234
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 9, 2002. 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
- PP5234
- Filed
- April 9, 1982
- Granted
- May 22, 1984
- Expires
- April 9, 2002
- Assignee
- CALIFORNIA FLORIDA PLANT CO LP
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H
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 distinctive cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant, named California Marble, a sport of Florida Marble, distinguished from its parent, as well as the other varieties of Yellow Marbles known to me, by its darker yellow flower color, its resistance to color fading, and fresher flower appearance during maturation. Among the Yellow Marbles, the new cultivar is most similar to its parent Florida Marble.
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, less prone to color fading, and less twisting and reflexing of the ray florets during maturation, giving the appearance of a fresher flower.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5234 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.