US Plant Patent PP8842
Ruby Star
Mandevilla: Ruby Star
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 7, 2013. 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
- PP8842
- Filed
- May 7, 1993
- Granted
- July 19, 1994
- Expires
- May 7, 2013
- Assignee
- GEM ORNAMENTALS INC
- Inventor
- HENNY RICHARD J
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Mandevilla characterized by large red flowers and shiny, dark evergreen leaves.
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 Mandevilla substantially as shown and described, characterized by flowers that open pale pink and turn to red within two days and last an additional 3-4 days on the plant, and shiny green oblong to elliptically shaped leaves.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8842 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.