US Plant Patent PP10253
Festival Red
Poinsettia plant named `Festival Red`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 3, 2016. 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
- PP10253
- Filed
- April 3, 1996
- Granted
- February 24, 1998
- Expires
- April 3, 2016
- Assignee
- OGLEVEE LTD
- Inventor
- HREBENIUK ALEXANDER
Abstract
A poinsettia plant named `Festival Red` particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of triple form, dark green leaves and intense rich red bracts. Plants are long lasting in shipment, greenhouse and home, and have upright and moderately compact growth habit with free branching.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of poinsettia plant as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its dark green foliage, intense rich red multilayered and nondrooping bracts having strong stems and a broad base, fully developed cyathia, early flowering, free branching and very long postharvest quality.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP10253 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.