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US Plant Patent PP15685

Sulte Pur

Antirrhinum plant named ‘Sulte Pur’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 26, 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 51 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP15685, the photograph of Sulte Pur printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP15685, 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
PP15685
Filed
April 5, 2004
Granted
March 22, 2005
Expires
May 26, 2024
Inventor
PIERCE ROBERT

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Antirrhinum plant named ‘Sulte Pur’, characterized by its outwardly spreading, decumbent and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and numerous flowers that are purple 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 Pur’, as illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP15685 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.