US Plant Patent PP8733
4-91
Poinsettia plant `4-91`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 7, 2013. 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
- PP8733
- Filed
- May 7, 1993
- Granted
- May 17, 1994
- Expires
- May 7, 2013
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- FRUEHWIRTH FRANZ
Abstract
Poinsettia "4-91" is a new cultivar, distinguished by blushed pink flower bracts, and self-branching characteristics. "4-91" is a color sport of the bicolored poinsettia "135" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,234) with the same early flowering response and cultural requirements. The new plant produces a very desirable branched flowering pot plant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Poinsettia cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by its blushed pink flower bracts, and self-branching traits.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8733 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.