US Plant Patent PP4715
Golden King
Orchid plant: Golden King
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 4, 1999. 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
- PP4715
- Filed
- October 4, 1979
- Granted
- May 12, 1981
- Expires
- October 4, 1999
- Inventor
- GUO SHUH-LIH
Abstract
A new and distinctive variety of orchid hybrid plant of the genus Phalaenopsis distinguishes itself particularly by the overall pure yellow coloration of its flowers which is rare in this genus. The new variety of orchid hybrid plant quite differs from its parents, plants of the same hybrid population, and other yellow flowered Phalaenopsis, in its unusually large size, longer blooming life, matchless yellow coloration without spots and greater profusion.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of orchid hybrid plant of the genus Phalaenopsis substantially as herein described and illustrated, characterized particularly by its matchless and distinguished yellow flowers which are unusually large, profuse, and long-lasting when compared with other flowers of this genus.
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