Kalanchoe plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 28, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on June 7, 1996, but this patent ends 710 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

The record

Patent number

PP4068

Filed

June 7, 1976

Granted

June 28, 1977

Expires

June 28, 1994

Inventor

IRWIN LAWRENCE T

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.

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

A new and distinct variety of Kalanchoe plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a tall, upright, vigorous habit, growing 16 inches to 20 inches in height; the very large flowers of about 2 cm diameter; the unique scarlet color of the flowers with a definite yellow eye (4); profusion of flowers carried on sturdy stems 4 inches to 6 inches above the foliage; the medium large size flexible foliage of fern green color; and the adaptability to year round flowering with photoperiod manipulation.

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 variety of Kalanchoe plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a tall, upright, vigorous habit, growing 16 inches to 20 inches in height; the very large flowers of about 2 cm diameter; the unique scarlet color of the flowers with a definite yellow eye (4); profusion of flowers carried on sturdy stems 4 inches to 6 inches above the foliage; the medium large size flexible foliage of fern green color; and the adaptability to year round flowering with photoperiod manipulation.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4068 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.