US Plant Patent PP10234
Petunia Plant Named Michel
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 19, 2016. 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
- PP10234
- Filed
- September 19, 1996
- Granted
- February 10, 1998
- Expires
- September 19, 2016
- Assignee
- PLANTAGEN S A
- Inventor
- ADOLPH ERNEST
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant, which is unusual for its date — by the mid-1990s nearly every plant patent carried a cultivar name. 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 distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named `Michel`, characterized by its bright red flowers; floriferous with numerous flowers per plant; early flowering; vigorous growth habit and moderate growth rate; spreading plant habit and freely branching; strong, healthy foliage; and moderate tolerance to rain, drought and temperature extremes.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named `Michel`, as illustrated and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10234 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.