US Plant Patent PP7403
Raphiolepis indica cv. Ponto's Pink Clara
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 18, 2009. 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
- PP7403
- Filed
- April 18, 1989
- Granted
- December 25, 1990
- Expires
- April 18, 2009
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new and distinct selection of Raphiolepis indica (popularly known as Indian Hawthorn) which herein is referred to as Raphiolepis indica cultivar Ponto's Pink Clara. Raphiolepis indica cv. Ponto's Pink Clara differs from its parent plant by possessing a pink flower rather than white, and the leaves are more leathery and deeper in color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new, distinct and different selection of Raphiolepis indica as substantially shown and described herein, that is characterized by green and leathery foliage, growth habits dense and mounding, and covered with single clear pink flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7403 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.