US Plant Patent PP9058
664
Poinsettia plant `664`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 7, 2014. 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
- PP9058
- Filed
- February 7, 1994
- Granted
- February 14, 1995
- Expires
- February 7, 2014
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- FRUEHWIRTH FRANZ
Abstract
Poinsettia `664` is a new cultivar, distinguished by bright red, erect flower bracts, early flowering and self-branching characteristics. `664` is a naturally occurring sport of the poinsettia `268` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,275) with the same cultural requirements. The new plant produces a very desirable, early flowering, branched 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 bright red, erect flower bracts, self branching traits and early flowering.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9058 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.