US Plant Patent PP4032
Gladanthera guldemond-Myrta
Gladanthera guldemond-Myrta
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 5, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 26, 1996, but this patent ends 721 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
- PP4032
- Filed
- March 26, 1976
- Granted
- April 5, 1977
- Expires
- April 5, 1994
- Assignee
- MYRTA M GULDEMOND
- Inventor
- GULDEMOND CORNELIUS K
Abstract
A new and distinct member of the iridaceae family characterized by a unique combination of the characteristics of the Gladiolus and the Acidanthera murielae, namely a flower of the Gladiolus, the drooping characteristic of the flower Acidanthera murielae and the fragrance of the Acidanthera murielae.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed is defined as follows: 1. A new and distinct variety of plant in the Iridaceae family, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of the characteristics of the common Gladiolus and the Acidanthera murielae, namely the flower of a Gladiolus, the drooping characteristic of the flower of the Acidanthera murielae, and the fragrance of the Acidanthera murielae.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4032 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.