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US Plant Patent PP15518

Sulte Litpinka

Antirrhinum plant named ‘Sulte Litpinka’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 7, 2024. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on April 5, 2024. This patent earned 2 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15518, the photograph of Sulte Litpinka printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15518, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP15518
Filed
April 5, 2004
Granted
February 1, 2005
Expires
April 7, 2024
Inventor
PIERCE ROBERT

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Antirrhinum plant named ‘Sulte Litpinka’, characterized by its outwardly spreading, decumbent and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and numerous flowers that are light pink in color.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Antirrhinum plant named ‘Sulte Litpinka’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15518 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.