US Plant Patent PP4446
Orchid plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 19, 1998. 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
- PP4446
- Filed
- June 19, 1978
- Granted
- August 7, 1979
- Expires
- June 19, 1998
- Assignee
- FORT CAROLINE ORCHIDS INC
- Inventor
- ALLEN DOUGLAS R
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, and for its era that is ordinary rather than an omission. Before about 1980, breeders frequently patented a plant without giving it a cultivar name at all — the grant identified it by its number, its parentage and a written description of the flower and foliage. Most plant patents from the 1930s to the 1970s have no name in them.
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 new and distinct variety of orchid plant of the Brassolaeliocattleya group distinguished by an overall green coloration of a large flower which has exceptional texture and substance, a robust plant growth habit, an abundant flower production, and citron scented flower smell.
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 Brassolaeliocattleya orchid plant substantially as herein shown and described characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of a substantially concolor green flower, abundant year around flower production, with flowers being well displayed and of very heavy substance, lasting for about a full month in a cool atmosphere, and the flower having a heavy citron scent.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4446 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.