US Plant Patent PP4136
Sunset Gold
Coleonema pulchrum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 25, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 8, 1996, but this patent ends 684 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4136
- Filed
- September 8, 1976
- Granted
- October 25, 1977
- Expires
- October 25, 1994
- Assignee
- KEPITIS BY SAID JURIS E SCHUTZ, KEPITIS PETERIS, SCHUTZ BY SAID MURDOCH N MCINT, SCHUTZ SOLVEIGA M
- Inventor
- SCHUTZ JURIS EDGAR; MCINTOSH MURDOCH NIALL
Abstract
This novel mutation of Coleonema pulchrum is characterized by its golden foliage, pink flowers, and dwarf form.
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 Coleonema pulchrum referred to by the cultivar name Sunset Gold and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by its dwarf growth form, golden color foliage and its generally pink flower color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4136 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.