US Plant Patent PP16097

Mainestream Tempest

Iris plant named ‘Mainestream Tempest’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 16, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 30, 2024. This patent earned 139 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16097, the photograph of Mainestream Tempest printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16097, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP16097
Filed: July 30, 2004
Granted: November 8, 2005
Expires: December 16, 2024
Assignee: BETTS MARY S
Inventor: BETTS MARY S

Abstract

‘Mainestream Tempest’ is an interspecific Iris hybrid that exhibits the unique characteristic of having spring foliage that emerges gold in color and is further characterized by its dark purple flowers borne on branched flower stems and combined with a vigorous growth habit.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Iris plant named ‘Mainestream Tempest’ as herein illustrated and described.

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