US Plant Patent PP9675
Merit
Kalanchoe plant named Merit
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 13, 2015. 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
- PP9675
- Filed
- June 13, 1995
- Granted
- October 29, 1996
- Expires
- June 13, 2015
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
A new Kalanchoe cultivar named Merit characterized by the combined features of orange-red flower color, early flowering time, relatively compact plant habit, floriferous habit which produces a mounded mass of blooms, excellent keeping quality, and excellent basal branching.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant named Merit, as illustrated and described.
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