US Plant Patent PP8972
Staviolet
Mini-spray carnation plant named Staviolet
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 8, 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 629 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
- PP8972
- Filed
- July 29, 1993
- Granted
- November 8, 1994
- Expires
- November 8, 2011
- Assignee
- STAAVEREN BV
- Inventor
- VAN ANDEL JACOB
Abstract
A new and original mini-spray carnation plant particularly distinguished by its bright flat cyclamen purple flowers having white centers and deeply serrated white margins, which are borne profusely and intermittently in clusters on erect stems branching from the main stem of an upright bush that has a height of about 110 cm.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive mini-spray carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its small flat cyclamen-purple flowers having petals with a deeply serrated white margins and wide white base and having flowers produced profusely in clusters on strong, upright branches of the main stem of a fast-growing, tall, erect bush.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8972 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.