US Plant Patent PP8650
Heath plant named Happy
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 21, 2012. 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
- PP8650
- Filed
- October 21, 1992
- Granted
- March 22, 1994
- Expires
- October 21, 2012
- Assignee
- BAY CITY FLOWER CO
- Inventor
- IMAZIO BRUNO L
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of heath plant named Erica persoluta `Happy`, a seedling on unknown pollen and seed parentage, discovered in a field of Erica persoluta, which is distinguished from Erica persoluta and other varieties known to me by its early flowering habit, dense and compact appearance, natural short growth habit, orchid colored blooms that cover the plume from the base of the stem all the way to the tip of the plant, and its tight, narrow and erect plumes spike-like flower clusters.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct hybrid plant variety of the Heath family substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8650 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.