US Plant Patent PP4563
Medalist
Yellow chrysanthemum named Medalist
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 5, 1999. 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
- PP4563
- Filed
- March 5, 1979
- Granted
- July 1, 1980
- Expires
- March 5, 1999
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium distinguished by the bright yellow color of its flat blooms which have a green center in the mass of its yellow disc florets. This greenhouse pot plant is also distinguished by its compact habit and the distinct advantage that it will not heat delay. It is a late nine-week medium variety and is at its best when grown from April to October.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct chrysanthemum cultivar, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its bright yellow composite flowers which have green florets at the center of the disc, by its compact plant habit, and by its freedom from heat delay.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4563 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.