US Plant Patent PP4101
Jupiter
Kalanchoe plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 13, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 27, 1996, but this patent ends 683 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
- PP4101
- Filed
- July 27, 1976
- Granted
- September 13, 1977
- Expires
- September 13, 1994
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- GROB ADOLF
Abstract
This invention relates to a novel Kalanchoe having fast but compact growth and relatively large, bright red flowers which are produced over a period of up to 2 months.
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 cultivar of Kalanchoe plant characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of fast and compact growth; develops a large floral display with a minimum amount of basal growth required before removal of the apical tip; a relatively large flower having a bright red color; continuous flowering over a period of up to two months; suitable for production as small plants for pots, and by its production of vegetative cuttings that propagate very readily.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4101 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.