US Plant Patent PP5217
Miniature carnation
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 12, 2002. 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
- PP5217
- Filed
- July 12, 1982
- Granted
- April 10, 1984
- Expires
- July 12, 2002
- Assignee
- SIRI BROTHERS NURSERY INC
- Inventor
- SIRI ANGELO J
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 miniature carnation characterized by blossoms which are of a champagne color turning white, with occasional purple flecks.
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 miniature carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5217 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.