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US Plant Patent PP8716

Continental

Guzmania plant named Continental

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 9, 2013. 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
PP8716
Filed
June 9, 1993
Granted
May 3, 1994
Expires
June 9, 2013
Assignee
CORN BAK BV
Inventor
BAK GERARDUS J; BAK ELLY; STEUR NICOLAAS D

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Guzmania plant named Continental, characterized by the combined features of superior bract production, bright red bracts and bright yellow flowers in a relatively large inflorescence, an induction period of 19 weeks and a flowering period that lasts approximately six weeks, and a compound inflorescence that produces over 100 flowers.

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 cultivar of Guzmania plant named Continental, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8716 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.