US Plant Patent PP4728
Firefly
Kalanchoe plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 26, 2000. 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
- PP4728
- Filed
- March 26, 1980
- Granted
- May 26, 1981
- Expires
- March 26, 2000
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- VAN DEN BERG CORNELIS P; MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A new kalanchoe plant referred to by the cultivar name Firefly, and characterized by its large, bright yellow and well clustered flowers; vigorous plant growth; relatively large leaves and strong peduncles, and by its adaptability to growth in varying size pots and to treatment with growth regulators.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of kalanchoe known by the cultivar name Firefly, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its large, bright yellow and well clustered flowers; vigorous plant growth relatively large leaves and strong peduncles, and by its adaptability to growth in varying size pots and to treatment with growth regulators.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4728 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.