US Plant Patent PP4178
Lovesong
Lily plant: Lilium `Lovesong`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 3, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 21, 1997, but this patent ends 749 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
- PP4178
- Filed
- January 21, 1977
- Granted
- January 3, 1978
- Expires
- January 3, 1995
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant unique in its division and having unusually bushy, lush foliage borne on a single erect stem and having a large number of buds and flowers, both characterized by a brilliant scarlet color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its short to medium height, its bushiness, its abundant foliage comprising lanceolate deep green leaves, the vigor of its growth, the rapidity of its propagation, its resistance to disease and tolerance to virus, its longevity, its suitability for pot culture, and in particular the vibrant clear deep scarlet color of its buds upon dividing and unfurling and of its flowers when the plant is in full bloom.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4178 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.