US Plant Patent PP4860
V-14 JB
Variegated poinsettia named V-14 JB
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 7, 2000. 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
- PP4860
- Filed
- October 7, 1980
- Granted
- June 22, 1982
- Expires
- October 7, 2000
- Assignee
- PAUL ECKE RANCH
- Inventor
- ECKE JR PAUL
Abstract
A new poinsettia cultivar having the unique physical and growth characteristics of the variety named Poinsettia V-14 (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,384), now named Glory, except that this new plant has its red bracts flecked and streaked with pink.
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 variegated red and pink poinsettia plant, substantially as herein shown and described, distinguished by the pink flecks and streaks appearing in the overall red background of the bracts, and by the retention of substantially all of the physical and growth characteristics, except foliage and bract coloration, of its parent, Poinsettia V-14.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4860 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.