Patents by Inventor Claude Hope

Claude Hope has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: PP4298
    Abstract: A new asexually reproduced Kalanchoe characterized by its uniform floriferous flowering of light purple colored flowers and wide versatility in the sizes of flowering plants that can be produced having outstanding keeping qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4306
    Abstract: A new asexually reproduced kalanchoe characterized by its intense bright red purple flower color, uniform mounded inflorescence, and broad versatility of sizes of plants that can be produced with equal keeping qualities regardless of size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4307
    Abstract: A new asexually reproduced kalanchoe characterized by its double crenate green oblong to elliptical foliage, branching at many of the leaf axils, peduncles of the inflorescence and individual flower pedicels being small in diameter but distinctly wiry and stiff, uniform flowering and very floriferous with orange red flowers, with both the foliage and flowers possessing outstanding keeping qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Assignee: Mikkelsens, Inc.
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4342
    Abstract: A new variety of kalanchoe plant most suitable for greenhouse culture as a pot plant and capable of year around flowering under photoperiod control conditions, characterized by its intense red florets which range from about 10 to 12 mm. in diameter, a uniform 10-week flowering response, a medium plant height with medium sized, glossy foliage, and an extended blooming period due to several weeks of continuous flower bud development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4343
    Abstract: A new variety of kalanchoe plant intended for greenhouse culture as a pot plant and suitable for year around flowering with photoperiod control, characterized by the intense rose pink color of its florets which range from 10 to 12 mm. in diameter, a uniform 10-week flowering response, a medium plant height and an extended blooming period due to several weeks of continuous flower bud development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4344
    Abstract: A kalanchoe cultivar for greenhouse culture as a potted plant and suitable for year around flowering with photoperiod control, characterized by its intense orange colored florets of medium size which exhibit minimal fading upon aging and which bloom over an extended period due to several weeks of continuous flower bud development. This cultivar is a plant of medium height with an abundance of relatively large glossy foliage at its base, a uniform 10-week response, and a strong resistance to powdery mildew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4345
    Abstract: A cultivar of kalanchoe for greenhouse culture as a potted plant, suitable for year around flowering under photoperiod control and characterized by its intense orange-red flowers of medium size which exhibit minimal fading, its medium plant height with medium sized glossy foliage, its 10-week flowering response and its resistance to powdery mildew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4567
    Abstract: A new cultivar of kalanchoe characterized by its bright pink florets which range from 12 to 14 mm. in diameter, an extended blooming period due to continuous flower bud development over several weeks, a uniform 10-week flowering response for year around flowering with photoperiod control, and its medium plant height with medium sized glossy foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4568
    Abstract: A new kalanchoe variety for greenhouse culture as a pot plant and suitable for year around flowering with a 10-week response under photoperiod control characterized by the orange-red color of its medium sized florets which bloom for an extended period due to a continuous flower bud development during the first several weeks of the blooming period, and by its upright growth with medium plant height, compact habit, and medium sized glossy foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4744
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of kalanchoe plant particularly distinguished by its unique orange-yellow flowers supported by rigid upright stems in tightly clustered panicles above and between shiny dark green leaves. This plant is intended for year-around four and six inch pot production and has a ten to twelve week flowering response to photoperiod control. It has a rapid and vigorous growth habit with caespitose branching, abundant foliage, and a profuse production of flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4745
    Abstract: A new kalanchoe cultivar developed for year-around four or six inch pot production and distinguished by its profuse display of closely massed flowers which are of a light red color upon first opening and which quickly turn to a bright pink, giving the head of flowers a pleasing two-tone appearance. This plant has a vigorous and rapid growth habit and an abundant production of large leaves spreading outwardly below the large and bright clusters of flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP4806
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of kalanchoe particularly suitable for year-around four or six inch pot plant production and distinguished by its dark red flowers held high above an abundant display of large, shiny, dark green leaves. This plant has a ten to twelve week response, a strong, vigorous and upright growth habit, and a profuse production of blooms borne on strong, rigid stems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Assignee: Pan-American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5384
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Kalanchoe plant named Acapulco characterized by its bright and uniform fuchsia flower color, compact habit, freely branching, with shoots formed at every node, highly floriferous habit, and by its suitability for production in 10 to 15 cm. pots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5385
    Abstract: A new and distinct Kalanchoe plant named Cozumel, characterized by its orange flower color with bright yellow eye, compact habit, free branching, average 11-week flowering response, and its adaptability to production in 10-15 cm. pots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5386
    Abstract: A new and distinct Kalanchoe plant named Granada characterized by its deep coral immature and pink mature flower color, compact habit, highly floriferous habit, free branching, average 13-week flowering response, and its adaptability to production in 10-15 cm. pots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5387
    Abstract: A new and distinct Kalanchoe plant named Cancun, characterized by its early flowering response, highly floriferous habit, orange flower color with yellow eye, compact habit, fast growth rate, free branching, average 11 week flowering response, and its adaptability to production in 10-15 cm. pots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5563
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of impatiens plant named Vista Impatiens No. 37 characterized by its large vivid fuchsia colored flowers with a light center eye, dark green foliage, good self-branching habit, moderate rate of growth, highly floriferous and substantially continuous flower habit, and by its tall upright habit, making the cultivar suitable for bedding plants and pot plant culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5592
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of impatiens plant named Vista Impatiens No. 13 characterized by its very large vivid orange-red flowers, dark attractive green foliage, good keeping qualities, and by its compact and dense self-branching habit, making the new cultivar ideal for bedding plants, pot plant culture and hanging baskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5593
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of impatiens Plant known by as Vista Impatiens No. 3, and particularly characterized by its compact, spreading and self-branching habit; large and brilliant carmine flowers; dark red-green foliage, and suitably for growing as a bedding plant, pot plant or hanging basket. suThe present invention relates to a new and distinctive cultivar of impatiens plant, botanically known as Impatiens, and known by the cultivar name Vista Impatiens No. 3.This new cultivar was the result of a planned program of hybridization the purpose of which was to obtain a series of plants having a wide range of colors and with very large flowers derived from the New Guinea complex of species collected by the Longwood Garden Expedition of 1970. The new cultivar was selected in 1981, and given seedling No. 3381-57-2. The cultivar was produced by crossing seedlings 3081-1.times.3357-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope
  • Patent number: PP5594
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of impatiens plant named Vista Impatiens No. 10 characterized by its vivid red and large flowers, dark green foliage, profuse blooming, and tall and upright habit, making it suitable for bedding plants and pot plant culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Pan American Plant Company
    Inventor: Claude Hope