US Plant Patent PP4871
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
- PP4871
- Filed
- May 21, 1980
- Granted
- August 3, 1982
- Expires
- May 21, 2000
- Assignee
- PETITE FILS ET FILS DE VACHERO
- Inventor
- LECOUFLE MAURICE; VACHEROT MICHEL
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
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 variety of orchid plant of the yellow class distinguished by an abundant production of flowers of good size usually borne in a group of two to four flowers well arranged on the spike and with an autumn flowering period, a strong habit of plant growth, excellent texture and substance of the flower petals and sepals, and a distinctive and attractive lemon yellow color of the petals and sepals contrasting with the velvet of a ruby red labellum.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of orchid plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by a strong habit of plant growth and abundant production of flowers having petals and sepals of excellent texture and substance and a distinctive lemon yellow color of the petals and sepals contrasting with a ruby red labellum.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4871 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.