US Plant Patent PP8881
Stagilac
Mini-spray carnation plant named `Stagilac`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2011. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 29, 2013, but this patent ends 689 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
- PP8881
- Filed
- July 29, 1993
- Granted
- September 6, 1994
- Expires
- September 9, 2011
- Assignee
- STAAVEREN BV
- Inventor
- VAN ANDEL JACOB
Abstract
A new variety of mini-spray carnation particularly distinguished by its recurrent profuse production of small flowers, the petals of which are white at the base and purple to the outer edge, and by the rapid growth rate of the plant which takes the form of a bush with moderate 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 miniature spray carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its recurrent profuse production of small flowers, which are white at the base and purple to the outer edge.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8881 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.