US Plant Patent PP4442
Fuchsia plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 5, 1998. 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
- PP4442
- Filed
- July 5, 1978
- Granted
- July 24, 1979
- Expires
- July 5, 1998
- Inventor
- SHAWVER JAMES R
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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
This invention relates to a new and improved fuchsia plant, the principal new and different characteristic of which is the combination of the rose red sepals with the lavender corolla.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus disclosed by discovery I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of fuchsia plant herein described and illustrated, characterized by the rose red sepals in combination with the lavender petals marked with rose red veins.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4442 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.