US Plant Patent PP14977
Fismars
Poinsettia plant named ‘Fismars’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 27, 2023. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 7, 2023. This patent earned 51 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

The record
- Patent number
- PP14977
- Filed
- March 7, 2003
- Granted
- July 6, 2004
- Expires
- April 27, 2023
- Assignee
- FLORFIS AG
- Inventor
- ZERR KATHARINA
Abstract
A new and distinct Poinsettia plant named ‘Fismars’, characterized as having medium red bract color; medium sized bracts in tight and flat rosette-like arrangement; dark green foliage with weak lobes; about medium sized, V-shaped with the branches slanting upright; and begin of flowering mid season.
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 Poinsettia plant named ‘Fismars’ as illustrated and described herein.
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