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US Plant Patent PP4938

V-14 White

Poinsettia named V-14 White

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 20, 2001. 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
PP4938
Filed
April 20, 1981
Granted
November 9, 1982
Expires
April 20, 2001
Inventor
ECKE JR PAUL

Abstract

A new white poinsettia cultivar orginated as a mutation of V-14 Pink (application Ser. No. 185,121 filed Sept. 5, 1980 and now U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,808 and having substantially the same physical characteristics and habits as the parent plant.

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 cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its many bracts of solid white color in overlapping arrangement and tightly centered about the flower cluster; this plant having substantially the identical physical characteristics and growth habits of its parent plant.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4938 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.