US Plant Patent PP4249
Bridal Icing
Peony plant named Bridal Icing
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 2, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on May 9, 1997, but this patent ends 738 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
- PP4249
- Filed
- May 9, 1977
- Granted
- May 2, 1978
- Expires
- May 2, 1995
- Assignee
- KLEHM BOYS PARTNERSHIP
- Inventor
- KLEHM ROY G
Abstract
A new variety of peony plant distinguished by an almost perfect "bomb" type of white flower which is produced profusely late in the peony blooming season and which has an above average lasting quality, both on the plant and as a cut flower. The plant is of medium height with a rapid growth habit, above average strength, and abundant deep green foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct peony plant cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its improved and nearly perfect "bomb" type of flowers, and by its profuse production of very white flowers the appearance of which is enhanced by the warm inner glow from the yellow base coloring of the "bomb" petals.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4249 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.