US Plant Patent PP15806

The OrchidWorks

Oncidium Sweet Ears ‘The OrchidWorks’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 8, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on September 10, 2023. This patent earned 241 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15806, the photograph of The OrchidWorks printed in the patent. — Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15806, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number: PP15806
Filed: September 10, 2003
Granted: June 28, 2005
Expires: May 8, 2024
Inventor: MCCULLY JAMES WILLIAM

Abstract

A new variety of orchid plant of the genus Oncidium, named Oncidium Sweet Ears ‘The OrchidWorks’, distinguished particularly by a compact size, brilliant yellow and chocolate flowers with larger than typical flower segments, and self erect raceme with many branches on a typical first bloom plant.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of orchid plant named Oncidium Sweet Ears ‘The OrchidWorks’, substantially as illustrated and described herein.

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