US Plant Patent PP9601
Red and White
`Red and White` Poinsettia
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 1, 2014. 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
- PP9601
- Filed
- December 1, 1994
- Granted
- July 9, 1996
- Expires
- December 1, 2014
- Inventor
- OTT CLEVELAND
Abstract
A new variety of poinsettia in which the bract coloration is distinctly red with distinct white mottling. This plant was found among Angelika White cultivars, and it shares with them a similar leaf color, height, and blooming habit.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Poinsettia plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by a stable and uniform coloration of distinct red bracts with distinct white mottling.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9601 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.