US Plant Patent PP4906
Tempo
Lily named Tempo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 11, 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
- PP4906
- Filed
- December 11, 1980
- Granted
- October 26, 1982
- Expires
- December 11, 2000
- Assignee
- SUN VALLEY BULB FARMS INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of lily plant of the Parkmannis-type oriental hybrid particularly distinguished by the glossy purple red coloring and white frilly border of its 7 to 8 inch diameter, generally flat, outwardly facing flowers which are borne with raceme arrangement on long, strong stems which carry stiff, upwardly extending pedicels, usually with one bud or flower on each pedicel, and by its dark green, glossy and relatively disease-resistant foliage.
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 oriental hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its large, brilliant, reddish purple, outwardly facing flowers borne on strong, stiff pedicels, and by its dark green, glossy foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4906 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.