US Plant Patent PP10816
Franca
Neoregelia plant named `Franca`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 11, 2017. 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
- PP10816
- Filed
- July 11, 1997
- Granted
- March 2, 1999
- Expires
- July 11, 2017
- Inventor
- SKOTAK JR CHESTER
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Neoregelia plant named `Franca`, characterized by its leaves with a creamy white margin (R.H.S. 160B) and dark green center (R.H.S. 131A); the innermost leaves at the center of the rosette, when in flower, are overlayed with pink (R.H.S. 59C); the innermost leaves at the center of the rosette hold their pink color for 3 to 5 months during and after flowering; and the plant produces large numbers of offsets.
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 Neoregelia plant named `Franca`, as illustrated and described within a 3 to 10 month period.
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