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.