US Plant Patent PP6097
Merrimaker
Poinsettia plant named Merrimaker
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 14, 2006. 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
- PP6097
- Filed
- January 14, 1986
- Granted
- February 2, 1988
- Expires
- January 14, 2006
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- MIKKELSEN JAMES C
Abstract
A poinsettia plant named Merrimaker particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of deep bright red colored bracts, dark green foliage, strong, vigorous, upright growth, early flowering, outstanding keeping quality, and by its commercially significant ability of being grown as a single stem or pinched 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 distinct cultivar of poinsettia plant named Merrimaker, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its deep bright red colored bracts; dark green foliage; strong, vigorous, upright growth; early flowering; outstanding keeping quality, and by its commercially significant ability of being grown as a single stem or pinched plant.
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