US Plant Patent PP4838
Odontioda
Odontioda orchid plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 21, 2000. 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
- PP4838
- Filed
- May 21, 1980
- Granted
- April 13, 1982
- Expires
- May 21, 2000
- Assignee
- PETITE FILS ET FILS DE VACHERO
- Inventor
- LECOUFLE MAURICE; VACHEROT MICHEL
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of orchid plant of the Odontioda genus particularly distinguished by the distinctive shape and red-brown coloring of its medium sized flowers, of which ten to fifteen are borne on each item, alternately spaced at two to four centimeters intervals along the upper half of the stem length, and by its regular fall and winter flowering under environmental conditions like those of Paris, France.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new Odontioda orchid plant substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished in particular by its distinctive shape and the red-brown oranged coloring of the sepals, petals and labellum, and by the fringed white margins and tip ends of the petals and labellum.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4838 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.