US Plant Patent PP4234
whopper
Peony named whopper
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 4, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 14, 1997, but this patent ends 741 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4234
- Filed
- April 14, 1977
- Granted
- April 4, 1978
- Expires
- April 4, 1995
- Assignee
- KLEHM BOYS 3 0 PARTNERSHIP
- Inventor
- KLEHM ROY G
Abstract
A new variety of peony plant characterized by the very large size of its flamboyant flowers which are distinguished by large, notched and slightly ruffled guard petals, and by a pleasing soft pink overall coloring. This new plant is also characterized by its profuse, midseason production of fragrant flowers having an above average lasting quality both on the plant and as a cut flower.
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 peony plant substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by the very large size of its soft pink bomb type flowers borne on sturdy stiff stems, its late spring blooming habit and by the above average lasting quality of the flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4234 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.