US Plant Patent PP7575
Tinkle Bells
Forsythia cv. `Tinkle Bells`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 21, 2008. 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
- PP7575
- Filed
- November 21, 1988
- Granted
- July 2, 1991
- Expires
- November 21, 2008
Abstract
A new cultivar of Forsythia intermedia named 'Tinkle Bells' characterized by its floriferousness, its semi-dwarf, upright character, its downwardly directed flowers, and its leaves which are serrated only at their upper ends.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Forsythia intermedia named `Tinkle Bells`, substantially as shown and described herein.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7575 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.