cwhitt said: how can one find out if a Amaryllis name has been registered?
I'm not an expert, and since no expert that really knows something is speaking up- I'll share all my research in a tree-mail later this weekend.
https://www.plantscope.nl/
is the general registry (all horticultural products, including 1200+ hippeastrums, going back decades.)
Plantscope is operated by Floricode.
This general information page for floricode (link below) describes the process of registration and how to name something, and talks of trade names and marks, etc. Follow more links on the left of the page at the link below.
https://www.floricode.com/en-u....
I have a login for plantscope that allows searching of Hipps registry with lots of photos. It's really good for searching the photos by color, and the photos are all professional quality, which really helps to ID.
However, the registration looks like it may be European trade-specific only, with special interest in the Netherlands. This registration page is not a listing of patent or trademarks!
I say that the registry seems to be mainly European because the U.S patented Hippeastrums (of which there seem to be only 9) do not appear on the plantscope registry of Hippeastrum.
Link to the U.S. Patented listing for Hippeastrum (note: searching Amaryllis pulls up less...)
https://digital.lib.umd.edu/pl...
You can drill down and follow links to read the patent details, which are interesting, and would show you what form your patent would take. You can only patent an asexually reproduced plant, and these patents describe how each patent accomplished that.
And a highly-technical article about 5 of those US patented hipps- which goes mostly way over my head!
https://journals.ashs.org/hort...
There is another option-
You COULD just sell it off to one (and maybe the only) US Amaryllis retailers, and let them hassle with all that...
augustavabusiness.com said:Bloomaker anticipates its largest holiday season in company history for its amaryllis blooms. The company will produce and ship nearly 1 million amaryllis bulbs to stores across the country, including Costco, Trader Joe's, Kroger, Harris Teeter, Martin's and Whole Foods, from its Waynesboro headquarters. This is a 425% increase in amaryllis sales in the past five years.
https://augustavabusiness.com/...
https://www.bloomaker.com/
Ken
(who really thinks you should just skip all this, name it "Christies Pride," and sell the offsets on Etsy- Autograph each one as the creating artist! And, watch for my tree-mail.)
Ken said:I've been wrong before!
