US Plant Patent PP4245
Eriobotrya
Eriobotrya hybrid
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 2, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on December 6, 1996, but this patent ends 584 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
- PP4245
- Filed
- December 6, 1976
- Granted
- May 2, 1978
- Expires
- May 2, 1995
- Assignee
- BORDIERS NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- BORDIER ERNEST P
Abstract
A novel Eriobotrya having large panicles of distinctive, light pink blossoms, and leaves which are coppery-red when new, turning to a shiny, dark green.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having described my invention, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Eriobotrya deflexa, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly as to its novelty by: the distinctive and unique coloring of the flowers which are light pink; the large pyramidal panicles of the flowers; by the shiny dark green leaves; and, by the new leaves that are coppery-red.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4245 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.