US Plant Patent PP6961
Variegated evergreen Azalea plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 3, 2007. 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
- PP6961
- Filed
- June 3, 1987
- Granted
- August 1, 1989
- Expires
- June 3, 2007
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
An azalea plant having variegated leaves and deep red blossoms.
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 variegated, evergreen azalea plant substantially as herein shown and described; characterized by a unique purple-red bloom and lustrous green foliage with white margins.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6961 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.