US Plant Patent PP6168
Lily plant called Little Pink Rascal
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 8, 2006. 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
- PP6168
- Filed
- May 8, 1986
- Granted
- May 3, 1988
- Expires
- May 8, 2006
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 lily cultivar of the Oriental hybrid type particularly characterized by its very short stature and its relatively large bowl-shaped flowers of rich magenta-rose coloration borne as a compact raceme, and by its deep rose pink bud coloration before the flowers open, the compact inflorescence being borne on an unusually short peduncle.
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 Oriental hybrid lily, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its short stature, its richly colored, outwardly facing flowers of large size, its short, moderately broad leaves of dark green color, and its adaptability as a potted plant cultivar.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6168 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.