US Plant Patent PP6114
Minneken
Poinsettia plant named Minneken
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 31, 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
- PP6114
- Filed
- January 31, 1986
- Granted
- February 23, 1988
- Expires
- January 31, 2006
- Assignee
- MIKKELSENS INC
- Inventor
- DREWLOW LYNDON W
Abstract
A poinsettia plant named Minneken particularly characterized by the combined characteristics of pink colored bracts, vigorous dwarf growth habit, 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 Minneken, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized by its pink colored bracts; vigorous, dwarf growth habit; 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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