US Plant Patent PP5867
Felicia amelloides Hartley White
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 21, 2004. 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
- PP5867
- Filed
- September 21, 1984
- Granted
- January 27, 1987
- Expires
- September 21, 2004
- Inventor
- HARTLEY RICHARD R; HARTLEY KATHLEEN R
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
A new and distinct type of Felicia characterized by its vigorous growth pattern and flower color, particularly adapted for home garden use as an ornamental plant.
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 variety of Felicia amelloides as described and shown herein characterized particularly by its vigorous growth pattern, and by its white ray flowers with yellow centers, as compared with the Blue Marguerite variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5867 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.