US Plant Patent PP4209
Pixie
Kalanchoe plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 7, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on February 8, 1997, but this patent ends 732 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
- PP4209
- Filed
- February 8, 1977
- Granted
- February 7, 1978
- Expires
- February 7, 1995
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A kalanchoe cultivar having a slow, compact growth habit, but being highly floriferous, bearing many small orange-red flowers on numerous shoots.
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 known by the cultivar name Pixie and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of slow, compact growth and excellent branching habits; highly floriferous, with well clustered, relatively small orange flowers; eight to nine week flowering time after flower initiation, and superior flower and foliage keeping qualities.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4209 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.