US Plant Patent PP4701
Slc
Orchid-Slc. Precious Stones-True Beauty
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 15, 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
- PP4701
- Filed
- April 15, 1980
- Granted
- April 28, 1981
- Expires
- April 15, 2000
- Assignee
- FRED A STEWART INC
- Inventor
- HETHERINGTON ERNEST E
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of orchid, and more particularly, a Sophrolaeliocattleya hybrid (herein abreviated Slc.) having dwarf growth habit and flowers of a red color. The new variety is distinctive from its parents, and from plants of the same hybrid population, and from other red flowered orchids, by the compact growth habit, free-blooming habit, and clear red color.
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 orchid, of the genus Sophrolaeliocattleya, discovered as an individual plant outstanding for its red colored flowers and compact growth habit among a large population of the particular hybrid group known as Slc. Precious Stones.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4701 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.