US Plant Patent PP5104
Plant of the cactaceae plant family
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 21, 2002. 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
- PP5104
- Filed
- April 21, 1982
- Granted
- September 13, 1983
- Expires
- April 21, 2002
- Assignee
- B L COBIA INC
- Inventor
- COBIA BARNELL L; COBIA ROBERT L
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 and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family is of the type known commercially as a "Christmas Cactus" has an erect growth habit and blooms with perianth tube forming tepals that have an axially oriented crease that extends proximally from the distal ends of the tepals and perianth tube laminating and forming tepals that in the marginal blade areas are dominated with colors that have a yellow hue.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct plant variety of the Cactaceae family as shown and described and which is distinguished by the following combination of characteristics: 1. An erect growth habit, 2. A bloom with perianth tube forming tepals that have an axially oriented crease that extends proximally from the distal end of the tepal, and 3. A bloom with perianth tube forming and laminating tepals that in the marginal blade areas are dominated by colors with a yellow hue.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5104 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.