US Plant Patent PP8548
Caricia
Standard carnation name Caricia
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 6, 2012. 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
- PP8548
- Filed
- January 6, 1992
- Granted
- January 18, 1994
- Expires
- January 6, 2012
- Assignee
- LAB DE PHYSIOLOGIE VEGETALE
- Inventor
- DESCLAUX JEAN L; UTO I
Abstract
A new standard carnation cultivar particularly distinguished by the Empireose colored flower petals. These flowers are of medium size and are borne singly on long, strong stems and bloom profusely during the recurrent blooming seasons of Spring and Fall. This plant has a vigorous upright growth habit and abundant foliage.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive carnation cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the Empire Rose color of the flower which is borne singly on long, strong stems and which blooms profusely during the recurrent blooming seasons of Spring and Fall.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8548 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.