US Plant Patent PP4808
V-14
Poinsettia named V-14 Pink
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 5, 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
- PP4808
- Filed
- September 5, 1980
- Granted
- January 19, 1982
- Expires
- September 5, 2000
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- ECKE JR PAUL
Abstract
A new variety of poinsettia plant having the important characteristics of the red variety Gutbier's V-14 (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,384), known commercially as "Glory", including the unique ability to produce numerous side shoots on its stem and the production of bracts with short petioles which prevent tubing, but distinguished by the fact that its bracts have a distinctive pink 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 distinctive poinsettia plant, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by the unique pink color of its numerous bracts, which are tightly centered and in overlapping relation to provide a full, compact appearance in full bloom.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4808 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.