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Tom Carruth lived on Altadena Drive in Altadena, California. The area was completely destroyed in the fire that swept southern California. Reports are that he lost everything.
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Poor Mr Carruth: that's a devastating thing to have to handle.
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The discoverer's surname is Wathen, not Walthen.
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7 days ago by
 jedmar
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Corrected, thank you!
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A United States patent application for Wekmeymo, #11/820,136, in the name of Lawrence E. Meyer and assigned to Weeks, was filed 6/18/2007. It was published 12/18/2008, as US Patent Publication 2008/0313779-P1. The application was initially rejected based on some easily correctable formalities. However, Weeks chose not to pursue the application and abandoned it.
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jedmar
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Patent application and further info added, thank you!
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There is no indication that Weeks abandoned the application due to registration of a similar rose. I originally thought this might be the case, but Yoyo was not cited in the prosecution history by either the applicant or the patent examiner. When they apply for a patent, applicants are required to cite the closest prior art of which they are aware, so they probably were not even aware of its existence. A more likely reason is that there was limited commercial potential for a miniature rose similar to Gizmo.
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The US plant patent is #3084, not #3083.
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